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353. Bluestocking - CPE Vocabulary - Bluestocking / Blue-Stocking

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 25.
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Bluestocking (Blue-stocking) : (전통적으로 여자의 역할보다는) 사상/학문에 더 관심이 많은 여자, 똑똑하고 총명한 여자, 사상과 학문에 더 관심이 많은 여자 같은

 

a noun, an adjective
a bluestocking is an intellectual woman 
this is a woman who follows intellectual pursuits
she's literally certainly very cultured
she is very scholarly


In the 18th century, there was the bluestocking society, this was a movement, a social and educational movement, in where the members were both men and women but they had literary discussion groups and the idea of this group was to move away from these non-intellectual activities for women, that women should be a little homemaker
a bluestocking is an intellectual womon, maybe a university professor or somebody who studies literature

I think probably this word, it is a little bit old-fashioned but I quite like this word
if you call someone a bluestocking, you are being disapproving but I think that's a very sexist thing
her husband strongly disapproved of her bluestocking interests
effectively a scholarly intellectual woman
she is learned, intelligent
she understands about science or literature or scholarly things

 


Formality : 6

 

 

 

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