English Explanatory Dictionary

Mrs. Leo Hunter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.

Word forms

Mrs. Leo Hunter Mrs. Leo Hunters

Etymology

Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest and curiosity”).

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