Beatnik

beatnik







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n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    披頭族(之成員);"垮掉的一代"中的一員

                      I am not a beatnik.

                     我不是垮掉的一代中的一員。





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



-nik (suffix)



is of either Yiddish or Russian origin and is an agentive ending similar to English -er, meaning“one who does or is linked to the action, object, or state described in the word to which it is affixed”: beatnik, peacenik, and computernik are typical of these slang coinages, and Americans continue to use -nik to make nonce words.