penny dreadful

短语

<英>廉价惊险小说

词形变化

penny dreadfuls 复数 penny dreadfuls

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.

    They can read the ‘penny dreadful’, but they cannot darn their stockings or mend their shoes.

  2. 2.

    Pulp fiction: stories written in the lurid style of the penny dreadfuls.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dime novel

上位词 1

novel

词源

From its low price and the lower-class British use of dreadful (“sensationalized crime reporting”).

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