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flashy, a.|ˈflæʃɪ|
[f. flash n.2 and v. + -y1. Association with flash a.2 and a.3 has probably affected some of the senses.]
†1. Throwing up water, splashing. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 59 Not so great a ruffling the riuer strong flasshye reteyneth. 1611Cotgr., Gascheux, flashie, plashie, washie, dashing, bespatling.
2.
†a. Over-moist, watery, frothy.
†b. Insipid, tasteless, vapid.
1625Bacon Ess., Studies (Arb.) 11 Distilled Bookes, are like common distilled Waters, Flashy things. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. 198 The other [turnips] being soft, flashy, and insipid. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 41 The taste of them is more sweet and flashy than Groats made of common Oats. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxi. 94 They [artichokes] eat not so flashy as when they are Boyled after our Way. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 329 It is not the first flashy, frothy Yeast. 1771Ann. Reg. 107/1 The young grass which springs in consequence of a flood, is of so flashy a nature that it occasions this common complaint. 1847Halliwell, Flashy..loose, unstable, as unsound grass; insipid.
†c. fig. Of persons and immaterial things: Trifling, destitute of solidity or purpose; void of meaning, trashy. Obs.
1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. Postscr., It can yeeld nothing but a flashy and loose conceyt to the judgement. 1637Milton Lycidas 122 Their lean and flashie songs. 1647Trapp Comm. Epistles 146 Their mirth is frothy and flashy, such as smooths the brow, but fils not the brest. 1679Shadwell True Widow 31 They are a company of flashy, frothy Fellows. 1745J. Mason Self-Knowl. iii. vi. (1853) 202 To read Froth and Trifles all our Life, is the way always to retain a flashy and juvenile Turn.
3. Giving off flashes, shining by flashes; glittering, sparkling, brilliant. lit. and fig. Also, lasting only for a flash, transitory, momentary.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiii. xii. 239 Flashie lightenings. 1630Prynne God No Impostor 13 Reprobates haue oft times many sodaine, transitory, and flashy ioyes. 1682New News from Bedlam 28 My Gallick Tongue, and my rare flashy Wit, Shall make the Whigs and all the Tories split Themselves with laughing. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 119, I soon felt my flashy Goodness fade. 1741Richardson Pamela (1742) III. 343 So flashy and transient a Glare. 1780F. Burney Diary Apr., She was very flashy, and talked away all the evening. 1784C. Burney Let. 16 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 317, I had a good flashey evening. 1819H. Busk Vestriad iv. 35 One ruby glitter'd like the flashy Mars. 1826Scott Jrnl. 29 Mar., A fine, flashy, disagreeable day; snow-clouds sweeping past among sunshine. 1840Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) II. 81, I will try to make as interesting an article, though I fear not so flashy, as that on Clive. 1884Manch. Exam. 11 Sept. 5/1 He looks beyond the momentary triumphs of a flashy and adventurous policy.
b. In depreciative sense, chiefly of speech, a speaker, or writer: Superficially bright; brilliant, but shallow; cheaply attractive.
a1690G. Fox Jrnl. Life, etc. I. 108 An high Notionist, and a flashy Man. 1739Cibber Apol. v. 107 The false, flashy Pretender to Wit. 1823De Quincey Lett. Educ. v. (1860) 97 The secondhand report of a flashy rhetorician. 1835Browning Paracelsus 129 Patient merit Obscured awhile by flashy tricks. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 295/1 As stories, these were cheap and flashy.
†4. Excited, impulsive, eager. Obs.
1632Vicars Virgil xi. 366 The ladie..With light-heel'd flashy haste the horse o'retook. 1767Bush Hibernia Cur. (1769) 22 By that time he has discharged his five or six bottles, he will get a little flashy, perhaps. 1781P. Beckford Hunting xix. 244, I have seen hounds so flashy, that they would break away from the huntsman as soon as they saw a cover.
5. Showy, fine-looking; gaudy, glaring.
1801Gabrielli Myst. Husb. III. 255 They then got into their carriage, a mighty flashy one, to my mind. 1805Wellington in Gurw. Disp. 14 Jan., The equipment which I propose..although not so flashy, would be more useful. 1829Cunningham Brit. Paint. I. 31 People naturally fond of flashy colours. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 315 The splendour of a very flashy silk waistcoat.
6. Of persons: Given to show, fond of cutting a dash, ‘swellish’; also, vain and conceited.
1687Congreve Old Bach. i. iv, Young termagant flashy sinners. a1704T. Brown Pleas. Epist. Wks. 1730 I. 109 Those flashy fellows, your Covent Garden poets. 1787G. Colman Inkle & Yarico ii. i, A young flashy Englishman will sometimes carry a whole fortune on his back. 1850Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 375 Veteran topers, flashy young men, visitors from the country.
7. Comb., as flashy-looking adj.
1852Earp Gold Col. Australia 72 That flashy-looking man in a tandem was transported for bank robbery. 1880Marg. Lonsdale Sister Dora viii. 209 A flashy-looking man, with conspicuous rings and watch-chain. |