单词 | coat-trailing |
释义 | coat-trailingn. Provocation; deliberately provocative conduct. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > picking quarrels > provocation tail-twisting1887 coat-trailing1927 1927 Observer 19 June 15/7 There is no touch of coat-trailing..about the claim of St. Peter's, York, to be ‘the fourth oldest of our public schools’. 1963 Ann. Reg. 1962 452 There were moments of farce, exhibitionism, self-advertisement, coat-trailing, and invective. Derivatives coat-trailer n. one who acts thus. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > picking quarrels > provocation > one who coat-trailer1942 1942 V. S. Pritchett in Penguin New Writing 15 21 The others sorted themselves out into types: the good fellow, the wind-bag, the coat-trailer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). coat-trailingadj. Provoking. ΚΠ 1959 Listener 5 Mar. 428/3 One of those coat-trailing,..off-the-cuff interviews this programme specializes in. 1962 Times 17 Jan. 13/7 Mr. Muggeridge's commentary, as well as being less deliberately coat-trailing than sometimes hitherto. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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