单词 | chintzy |
释义 | chintzyadj. 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). < adj.1851 |
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