-ville
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Quality; condition:
质量，特性；情况，状态：
dullsville.
无聊者，令人厌恶者
语源
- From place names ending in -ville as Jacksonville
From place names ending in -ville as Jacksonville - from French [town]
from French [town] - from Old French vile
from Old French vile - from Latin vīlla [country house, farm] * see weik- 1
from Latin vīlla [country house, farm] *参见 weik- 1
-ville
combining form in noun and adjective
slang, mainly US. (denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specified
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dragsville
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squaresville
-ville
Word Origin
1
a combining form extracted from place names ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usually pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation (dullsville; disasterville; Mediaville) or that name a condition (embarrassmentville; gloomsville).
Origin
ultimately < French ville city; see bidonville
Related Words
- squaresville
- bidonville
- dragsville
- dullsville
- hicksville
- Hooverville
-villea combining form indicating a notional city, usually specified as to type or kind, as in dullsville, yawnsville.
-ville
\\\\ˌvil, especially Southern vəl\\\\ noun suffix
dullsville
\\\\ˌvil, especially Southern vəl\\\\ noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY -ville, suffix occurring in names of towns, from French, from Old French, from ville village
: place, category, or quality of a specified naturedullsville
-ville
combining form
- informal used in fictitious place names with reference to a particular quality〈非正式〉［用在具有某种特点的虚构地名中］表示“镇”, “城”：
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dullsville.
词源
from French ville 'town'， used in many US town names.
1567 Harman Caveat (ed. 2) sig. G 3,Rome vyle London.
1843 G. Cruikshank Comic Almanack sig. F 4v,Tripe & Trotter Depôt..Meatville.
1891 N.Y. Sporting Times 11 July 3/4Then he was as frisky as a young colt and a slugger from Sluggersville.
1906 F. H. Burnett Shuttle (1907) xxxviii. 384That girl is a winner from Winnersville. I take off my hat to her.
1932 Magnet 17 Sept. 13/3 I'm telling you you're the biggest bonehead from Boneheadville.
1939 . [ see route marchs.v. routen. 4]
1956 , etc. . [ see Squaresville]
1959,1961 . [ see Cubesvilles.v. cuben. 1 1 c]
1961 . [ see Squaresville]
1962 P. Mortimer Pumpkin Eater xiii. 118Tiny bit boring, between you and me. Strict secrets of course. English Rose stuff. Deathville, as far as I'm concerned.
1964 . [ see relocate v. 2]
1967 J. Aitkin Young Meteors i. 35University? Man, that's just dragsville.
1972 Publishers' Weekly 2 Oct. 56/1 There are some who will simply not get the fun of it out there in mass-marketville.
1979 National Times ( Austral. ) 13 Oct. 5/2But there is a mite more to leadership, even here in Mediaville , than looking pretty and carrying a resonant baritone voice. [ sc. Washington]
-ville
suffix sporadically in vogue since c.1840 in U.S. colloquial word formation (such as dullsville, palookaville), abstracted from the -ville in place names (Louisville, Greenville, etc.), from Old French ville "town," from Latin villa (see villa).
ORIGIN: from French ville town, as in many US town-names. Cf. ville noun
-ville
combining form. U.S. Slang. in a state of; being in or from:
He’s Despairville, see,…and he’s fed up with humanity(S. J. Perelman).
I just finished it [a book] and all I can say is like War and Peaceville(Bruce Jay Friedman).
[< -ville, place name suffix, as in Nashville, Louisville]
-ville
\ˌvil especially South _və̇l\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: -ville, suffix occurring in names of towns, from French, from Old French, from ville farm, village — more at village
: place or category of a specified nature
< squaresville >
< squaresville >
-ville
Suffix
- Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.
Etymology
From French ville (“town, city”)
Usage notes
See also
English words suffixed with -ville