| 释义 |
superˈserviceable, a.
[super- 9 a.]
More serviceable than is required or fitting; doing or offering service beyond what is desired; officious.
1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 19 A..glasse-gazing super-seruiceable finicall Rogue. 1815Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 112 A prefix or an adjacent whensoever it is officious or super-serviceable. 1841Emerson Lect., Conserv. Wks. (Bohn) II. 276 What a compliment we pay to the good Spirit with our super⁓serviceable zeal! 1883J. Hawthorne Dust II. 34 Shop⁓keepers bowed in their doorways, rubbing superserviceable hands. 1901W. Morison Johnston of Warriston iv. 21 Even the rashest and most superserviceable of his officials on the spot could do nothing.
Hence superˈserviceableness.
1881Philad. Record No. 3412. 2 The insolent superserviceableness of professional detectives. |