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单词 facetiosity
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facetiosityn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: facetious adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < facetious adj. + -ity suffix: see -osity suffix. Compare earlier facetiousness n. N.E.D. (1894) gives the pronunciation as (făsī:ʃiˌǫ·sĭti) /fəˌsiːʃɪˈɒsɪtɪ/.
Obsolete. rare.
The quality of being facetious; a facetious item.
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1822 Liberal 1 209 The bookseller..evidently..laughs at the customer..when he has the luck to get rid of some heavy facetiosity by a chance sale.
1847 Henry Tale without End x. 74 Oh! merciless joke! agonising facetiosity! with demon-like dexterity, he twisted a wire through the tender gristle of the young swine's snout!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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