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单词 chintzy
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chintzyadj.

/ˈtʃɪntsi/
Etymology: < chintz n. + -y suffix1.
Decorated or covered with chintz; suggestive of a pattern in chintz. Also in extended use: suburban, unfashionable, petit-bourgeois, cheap; mean, stingy.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois > characteristic of
bourgeois1764
middle class1846
chintzy1851
middle-classy1926
gin and Jag1963
white bread1977
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [adjective] > coloured, patterned, or printed
chintz1722
nankeen1795
chintzy1851
shadow-striped1930
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]
gnedec900
gripplea1000
fastOE
narrow-hearteda1200
narrow?c1225
straitc1290
chinchc1300
nithinga1325
scarcec1330
clama1340
hard1340
scantc1366
sparingc1386
niggardc1400
chinchy?1406
retentivea1450
niggardousa1492
niggish1519
unliberal1533
pinching1548
dry1552
nigh1555
niggardly1560
churlish1566
squeamish1566
niggardish1567
niggard-like1567
holding1569
spare1577
handfast1578
envious1580
close-handed1585
hard-handed1587
curmudgeonly1590
parsimonious?1591
costive1594
hidebound1598
penny-pinching1600
penurious1600
strait-handed1600
club-fisted1601
dry-fisted1604
fast-handed1605
fast-fingered1607
close-fisted1608
near1611
scanting1613
carkingc1620
illiberal1623
clutch-fisteda1634
hideboundeda1640
clutch-fista1643
clunch-fisted1644
unbounteous1645
hard-fisted1646
purse-bound1652
close1654
stingy1659
tenacious1676
scanty1692
sneaking1696
gripe-handed1698
narrow-souled1699
niggardling1704
snippy1727
unindulgent1742
shabby1766
neargoinga1774
cheesemongering1781
split-farthing1787
save-all1788
picked1790
iron-fisted1794
unhandsome1800
scaly1803
nearbegoing1805
tight1805
nippit1808
nipcheese1819
cumin-splitting1822
partan-handed1823
scrimping1823
scrumptious1823
scrimpy1825
meanly1827
skinny1833
pinchfisted1837
mean1840
tight-fisted1843
screwy1844
stinty1849
cheeseparing1857
skinflinty1886
mouly1904
mingy1911
cheapskate1912
picey1937
tight-assed1961
chintzy1964
tightwad1976
1851 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 18 Sept. (1954) I. 362 The effect is chintzy and would be unbecoming.
1902 Academy 12 Apr. 379/1 Hunt's rhapsodical interpretation of Tickell's chintzy mythological poem on Kensington Gardens.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter vi. 135 The drawing-room was chintzy then—white walls and old china and bowls of roses and pink shaded lights.
1941 J. H. N. Collier Presenting Moonshine 5 A chintzy woman, possibly of literary tastes, swam forward.
1951 G. Greene End of Affair iii. vii. 145 He got up from his chintzy chair and came and sat with me on the chintzy sofa.
1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water ii. 30 A pleasant white-and-gold chintzy drawing-room.
1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxx. 154 I'll have to revise my attitude to the chintzy old bastard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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