English Explanatory Dictionary

Angry Young Man

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.

Word forms

Angry Young Man Angry Young Men

Etymology

Coined in reference to John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger.

Related words

Angries
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on A Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary