| 释义 |
swankpot slang.|ˈswæŋkpɒt|
[f. swank n.2 + pot n.1]
An ostentatious or boastful person; one who is full of swank.
1914Picture Fun 26 Dec. 1/6 Brimstone..and Billy kept the old swankpot nicely on the trot. 1927H. Walpole Jeremy at Crale xii. 212 He's an awful swankpot. 1936J. B. Priestley They walk in City v. 115 Silly swank-pot! 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xiii. 302 If a boy is under the necessity of coming to school in a new suit his fellows greet him with,..‘Swank pot’, ‘Posh guy’. |