| 释义 |
‖ tripotage|tripɔtaʒ|
[Fr.]
a. Underhand dealings, intrigue. Also fig.
b. rare. Pawing, handling, fingering.
In quot. 1853 perh. used mistakenly for tripotée large quantity.
1779Dr. Warner Let. Mar. in J. H. Jesse George Selwyn & his Contemporaries (1844) IV. 38 An infinite deal of lying, on all sides, and tripotage. Ibid. 42 But it is all of a piece, such a cursed tripotage! 1853C. Brontë Villette III. xxxvi. 131 At last I got through my list. The patterns for the slippers, the bell-ropes, the cabas were selected—the slides and tassels for the purses chosen—the whole ‘tripotage’, in short, was off my mind. 1895Nineteenth Cent. Oct. 548 The recent exposures of political tripotage. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 343/3 Beau Nash, though dabbling deeply in the tripotage, deprecated sensational ruins and suicides. 1958J. Lodwick Bid Soldiers Shoot ii. 41 The freshly shaved Hirsch..cornered the two women and subjected their not unwilling flesh to expert tripotage. |