| 单词 | figure of fun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfigure of fun b. colloquial. A person of grotesque or untidy appearance. figure of fun: a ludicrous personage, an oddity. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person mammet1461 scarecrow1590 antic1597 fright1751 figure1774 jigger1825 guy1836 flibbertigibbet1878 worricow1894 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person didapper1589 antic1597 zany1606 balatron1623 figure of fun1811 sketch1917 Herbert1960 1774 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 60 I..obtained leave to come down, though..quite a figure. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. (K.O.) 180 Figure of fun. 1813 Lady Burghersh in Lett. (1893) 61 Words can't describe the figures the women dress here of a morning. 1840 F. Trollope Widow Married I. vii. 167 What..can have induced you to make such a figure of yourself? 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. ii. 29 The figure of fun was a middle-aged man of small stature. 1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. 82 Each of them is a figure o' fun after his own fashion. < as lemmas |
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