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flashiness|ˈflæʃɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being flashy.
†1. Want of flavour, insipidity. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva § 461 When you would take away either their [Artichokes, etc.] Flashiness or Bitterness. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 345 What is Fish..before Salt correcteth the Flashiness thereof?
fig.a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 481 The flashinesse and unsavourinesse of the allegories. 1769Public Advertiser 8 June 4/2 The Insipidity and Flashiness of Quality-prattle.
2. a. Of speech: Superficial brilliance. b. Of dress: Gaudiness, showiness.
1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 9. 2/2 The Flashyness of his Discourse. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 163 With some little touch of sailor-like flashiness. |