Amis
[ey-mis]
- Kingsley,1922–95, English novelist.
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ami
[a-mee; English a-mee, ah-mee]
- a friend, especially a male friend.
- a boyfriend or male lover.
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Contemporary Examples
A writer much admired by Amis, the German novelist W.G. Sebald, said, “no serious person ever thinks about anything else.”
“There have been very significant Jews in my life,” Amis recently said.
Amis used potent, roided-up language to make New York City both familiar and un-, and the tools of satire to make it grotesque.
And like Mailer, Amis was at first lionized by the media, then caricatured, and then vilified.
Tait seems to insinuate for all media that it would be better if Amis never came back.
Historical Examples
Mes amis, I crave pardon of my discourtesy, he said, laughing; but what would you?
Long WillFlorence Converse
She went at once to Winchester and sent for the wife of Mr. Amis, who had married her.
Historic OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould
What ensued shall be told in the words of Mrs. Amis at the trial.
Historic OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould
But Mr. Amis never held Sparsholt, but acted as curate there for a while in 1756 and 1757.
Historic OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould
She told Mrs. Amis that she wanted the register of her marriage to be made out.
Historic OdditiesSabine Baring-Gould
Amis
- Sir Kingsley . 1922–95, British novelist and poet, noted for his novels Lucky Jim (1954), Jake's Thing (1978), Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990)
- his son, Martin. born 1949, British novelist. His works include The Rachel Papers (1974), Money (1984), London Fields (1989), The Information (1994), Yellow Dog (2003), and Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012)
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ami
- a male friend
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Word Origin and History for amis
ami
n.
14c., "friend lover," from Old French amy, ami (see Amy).
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