flashyadj.

Brit.

/ˈflaʃi/, U.S.

/ˈflæʃi/

Etymology: < flash n.², flash v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Association with flash adj.², flash adj.³ has probably affected some of the senses.

†1. Throwing up water, splashing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing

flashy1582

swashing1620

plashing1813

splashing1837

spluttering1846

slushing1863

sousing1891

sloshing1924

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 Not so great a ruffling the riuer strong flasshye reteyneth.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gascheux, flashie, plashie, washie, dashing, bespatling.

Thesaurus »

†a. Over-moist, watery, frothy.

†b. Insipid, tasteless, vapid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]

wallowc897

smatchless?c1225

unsavoury?c1225

fresha1398

savourlessa1398

wearish1398

wershed1398

fond?c1430

unsavoured1435

palled1440

mildc1450

walsh1513

wallowish1548

dead1552

waterish1566

cold1585

flatten1594

seasonless1595

wersha1599

blown1600

flash1601

fatuous1608

tasteless1611

flat1617

insipid1620

ingustable1623

flashy1625

flatted1626

saltless1633

gustless1636

remiss1655

rheumatical1655

untasteable1656

vapid1656

exolete1657

distasted1662

vappous1673

insulse1676

toothless1679

mawkisha1697

intastable1701

waugh1703

impoignant1733

flavourless1736

instimulating1740

deadish1742

mawky1755

brineless1791

wishy-washy1791

keestless1802

shilpit1814

wish-washy1814

sapidless1821

silent1826

slushy1839

bland1878

spendsavour1879

wish-wash1896

dolled1917

spiceless1980

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 293 Distilled Bookes, are like common distilled Waters, Flashy Things.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 1) iv. 9 Love is as salt, which infuseth a savoury and wholesom taste into such things as would otherwise be fresh and Flashy.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 198 The other [turnips] being soft, flashy, and insipid.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 41 The taste of them is more sweet and flashy than Groats made of common Oats.

1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxi. 94 They [artichokes] eat not so flashy as when they are Boyled after our Way.

1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 329 It is not the first flashy, frothy Yeast.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 107/1 The young grass which springs in consequence of a flood, is of so flashy a nature that it occasions this common complaint.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flashy..loose, unstable, as unsound grass; insipid.

†c. figurative. Of persons and immaterial things: Trifling, destitute of solidity or purpose; void of meaning, trashy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial

frivol1492

fustian1523

triflinga1538

tirlery1546

trumpery1576

mockado1577

skipjack1597

flashy1598

trifle1607

fripperya1625

bagatelle1637

fingle-fangled1651

tawdry1696

sauntering1726

gimcrack1751

folderol1820

tin1886

shicec1890

cotton candy1951

candyfloss1957

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. Postscr. 104 So can it yeld nothing but a flashy and loose conceyt to the iudgement.

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Their lean and flashie songs.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. 146 Their mirth is frothy and flashy, such as smooths the brow, but fils not the brest.

1679 T. Shadwell True Widow iii. 31 They are a company of flashy, frothy Fellows.

1745 J. Mason Treat. Self-knowl. iii. vi. 238 To read Froth and Trifles all our Life, is the Way always to retain a flashy and juvenile Turn.

a. Giving off flashes, shining by flashes; glittering, sparkling, brilliant. literal and figurative. Also, lasting only for a flash, transitory, momentary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > flashing

flaming?a1400

flashing1548

brandishing1581

lamping1590

lightening1592

flashy1609

fulgid1610

bickering1667

coruscating1705

outflaming1856

aglance1880

flashful1890

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]

slidinga900

scrithingOE

henwardOE

swifta1225

short livya1325

passing1340

flittingc1374

shadowy1374

temporalc1384

speedfula1400

transitory?c1400

brittlea1425

unabidingc1430

frail?c1450

indurablec1450

scrithel?c1475

caduke1483

transitorious1492

passanta1500

perishinga1500

caducea1513

fugitive?1518

caducal?1548

quick1548

delible1549

flittering1549

undurable?1555

shadowish1561

fleeting1563

vading1566

flightful1571

wanzing1571

transitive1575

slipping1581

diary1583

unlasting1585

never-lasting1588

flit1590

post-like1594

running1598

short-lived1598

short-winded1598

transient1599

unpermanent1607

flashy1609

of a day1612

passable1613

dureless1614

urgenta1616

waxena1616

decayable1617

horary1620

evanid1626

fugitable1628

short-dated1632

fugacious1635

ephemerala1639

impermanent1653

fungous1655

volatile1655

ephemerousa1660

unimmortal1667

timesome1674

while-being1674

of passage1680

journal1685

ephemeron1714

admovent1727

evanescent1728

meteorous1750

deciduous1763

preterient1786

ephemeridal1795

meteorica1802

meteor1803

ephemerean1804

ephemerid1804

evanescing1805

fleeted1810

fleet1812

unenduring1814

unremaining1817

unimmortalized1839

impersistent1849

flighty1850

uneternal1862

caducous1863

diurnal1866

horarious1866

brisk1879

evasive1881

picaresque1959

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. xii. 239 Flashie lightenings.

1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 13 Reprobates haue oft times many sodaine, transitory, and flashy ioyes.

1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 28 My Gallick Tongue, and my rare flashy Wit, Shall make the Whigs and all the Tories split Themselves with laughing.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 119 I soon felt my flashy Goodness fade.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxv. 343 So flashy and so transient a Glare.

1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 33 She was very flashy, & talked away all the Evening.

1784 C. Burney Let. 16 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 317 I had a good flashey evening.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 35 One ruby glitter'd like the flashy Mars.

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Mar. (1939) 144 A fine, flashy, disagreeable day; snow-clouds sweeping past among sunshine.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) II. 81 I will try to make as interesting an article, though I fear not so flashy, as that on Clive.

1884 Manch. Examiner 11 Sept. 5/1 He looks beyond the momentary triumphs of a flashy and adventurous policy.

b. In depreciative sense, chiefly of speech, a speaker, or writer: Superficially bright; brilliant, but shallow; cheaply attractive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > showy or gaudy

flashya1690

tawdry1696

long-nebbed1818

a1690 G. Fox Jrnl. I. 108 An high Notionist, and a flashy Man.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 77 The false, flashy Pretender to Wit.

1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. July 89/2 The second-hand report of a flashy rhetorician.

1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 129 Patient merit Obscured awhile by flashy tricks.

1883 Cent. Mag. 26 295/1 As stories, these were cheap and flashy.

†4. Excited, impulsive, eager. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adjective]

brothc1175

impetuous1398

headya1425

brainish1530

hot-brained1556

hot-headed1603

flashy1632

hot-reined1635

scapperboiling1673

warm1749

étourdi1750

torrentuous1840

impulsive1847

unpoised1872

torrential1877

Latin1914

1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids xi. 366 The ladie..With light-heel'd flashy haste the horse o'retook.

?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 22 By that time he has discharged his five or six bottles, he will get a little flashy, perhaps.

1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xix. 244 I have seen hounds so flashy, that they would break away from the huntsman as soon as they saw a cover.

5. Showy, fine-looking; gaudy, glaring.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective]

fine1526

garish1545

flaunting1567

gawish1567

taffety1597

showful1607

flaming1609

flaring1610

over-brave1620

showish1675

rantingc1685

gaudy1709

showy1712

tinselled1738

kicky1790

flaunty1796

flashy1801

slangish1813

florid1815

tigerish1831

flash1836

flary1841

loud1850

flashy-looking1852

splurgy1852

cheesy1858

flagrant1858

jingo1859

cheesy1863

orchidaceous1864

flamboyant1879

vociferous1883

voyant1906

grandstanding1908

floozy1911

ritzy1919

like a (or the) dog's dinner1927

plush horse1936

kitsch1953

zazzy1961

pizzazz1969

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]

rankOE

peacockly?a1425

ruffling1531

garish1545

peacockish1551

peacock-like1576

ostentatious1590

fastuous?1591

flaring1593

flantitanting1596

ostentive1599

ostentative1601

showful1607

flourishable1614

flourishing1616

flaunting1624

ostentous1624

ostentatory1638

swasha1640

fanfaron1670

paradeful1748

ostensible1782

epideictic1790

fandangous1797

flashy1801

affiché1818

show-off1818

splashing1820

flaunty1825

splash-and-dash1830

pretentious1832

flash1836

splashy1836

pretenceful1841

swanky1842

peacocky1844

fantysheeny1847

splurgy1852

cheesy1858

pretensivea1868

duchessy1870

swagger1879

lavish1882

splurging1884

show-offy1890

razzmatazz1900

show-offish1903

whoop-de-do1904

Ritz1908

split-arse1917

swanking1918

ritzy1919

fantoosh1920

knock-me-down1922

showboating1936

showboat1939

hellzapoppin'1945

zazzy1961

glitzy1966

sploshy1966

zhuzhy1968

noncy1989

bling1999

1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 255 They then got into their carriage, a mighty flashy one, to my mind.

1805 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1835) II. 536 The equipment which I propose..although not so flashy, would be more useful.

1829 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters I. 31 People naturally fond of flashy colours.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 315 The splendour of a very flashy silk waistcoat.

6. Of persons: Given to show, fond of cutting a dash, ‘swellish’; also, vain and conceited.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [adjective]

self-liking1580

self-loved1590

self-admiring1592

self-loving1593

self-liked1599

glass-gazing1608

coxcombly1610

self-admired1621

coxcombical1649

self-idolizing1649

vain1692

flashy1693

vaunty1724

coxcombic1730

self-idolized1766

narcissine1805

foofaraw1848

vanitous1900

narcissistic1915

narcistic1918

dicty1920

narcissist1934

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > specifically of persons

jettingc1450

ruffling1543

strutting1577

ostentatious1658

flashy1693

parading1741

show-away1776

flash1785

slangy1850

peacocking1873

figuresome1884

fluttersome1895

posey1933

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 6 Young, termagant flashy sinners.

a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 2 Those flashy Fellows, your Covent-garden Poets.

1787 G. Colman Inkle & Yarico ii. i. 34 A young flashy Englishman will sometimes carry a whole fortune on his back.

1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 494 Veteran topers, flashy young men, visitors from the country.

Compounds

flashy-looking adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective]

fine1526

garish1545

flaunting1567

gawish1567

taffety1597

showful1607

flaming1609

flaring1610

over-brave1620

showish1675

rantingc1685

gaudy1709

showy1712

tinselled1738

kicky1790

flaunty1796

flashy1801

slangish1813

florid1815

tigerish1831

flash1836

flary1841

loud1850

flashy-looking1852

splurgy1852

cheesy1858

flagrant1858

jingo1859

cheesy1863

orchidaceous1864

flamboyant1879

vociferous1883

voyant1906

grandstanding1908

floozy1911

ritzy1919

like a (or the) dog's dinner1927

plush horse1936

kitsch1953

zazzy1961

pizzazz1969

1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 72 That flashy-looking man in a tandem was transported for bank robbery.

1880 M. Lonsdale Sister Dora viii. 209 A flashy-looking man, with conspicuous rings and watch-chain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	flashy
释义	flashyadj. Brit. /ˈflaʃi/, U.S. /ˈflæʃi/ Etymology: < flash n.², flash v.¹ + -y suffix¹. Association with flash adj.², flash adj.³ has probably affected some of the senses. †1. Throwing up water, splashing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing flashy1582 swashing1620 plashing1813 splashing1837 spluttering1846 slushing1863 sousing1891 sloshing1924 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 Not so great a ruffling the riuer strong flasshye reteyneth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gascheux, flashie, plashie, washie, dashing, bespatling. 2. Thesaurus » †a. Over-moist, watery, frothy. †b. Insipid, tasteless, vapid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective] wallowc897 smatchless?c1225 unsavoury?c1225 fresha1398 savourlessa1398 wearish1398 wershed1398 fond?c1430 unsavoured1435 palled1440 mildc1450 walsh1513 wallowish1548 dead1552 waterish1566 cold1585 flatten1594 seasonless1595 wersha1599 blown1600 flash1601 fatuous1608 tasteless1611 flat1617 insipid1620 ingustable1623 flashy1625 flatted1626 saltless1633 gustless1636 remiss1655 rheumatical1655 untasteable1656 vapid1656 exolete1657 distasted1662 vappous1673 insulse1676 toothless1679 mawkisha1697 intastable1701 waugh1703 impoignant1733 flavourless1736 instimulating1740 deadish1742 mawky1755 brineless1791 wishy-washy1791 keestless1802 shilpit1814 wish-washy1814 sapidless1821 silent1826 slushy1839 bland1878 spendsavour1879 wish-wash1896 dolled1917 spiceless1980 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 293 Distilled Bookes, are like common distilled Waters, Flashy Things. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 1) iv. 9 Love is as salt, which infuseth a savoury and wholesom taste into such things as would otherwise be fresh and Flashy. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 198 The other [turnips] being soft, flashy, and insipid. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 41 The taste of them is more sweet and flashy than Groats made of common Oats. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxi. 94 They [artichokes] eat not so flashy as when they are Boyled after our Way. 1743 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) 329 It is not the first flashy, frothy Yeast. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 107/1 The young grass which springs in consequence of a flood, is of so flashy a nature that it occasions this common complaint. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flashy..loose, unstable, as unsound grass; insipid. †c. figurative. Of persons and immaterial things: Trifling, destitute of solidity or purpose; void of meaning, trashy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial frivol1492 fustian1523 triflinga1538 tirlery1546 trumpery1576 mockado1577 skipjack1597 flashy1598 trifle1607 fripperya1625 bagatelle1637 fingle-fangled1651 tawdry1696 sauntering1726 gimcrack1751 folderol1820 tin1886 shicec1890 cotton candy1951 candyfloss1957 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. Postscr. 104 So can it yeld nothing but a flashy and loose conceyt to the iudgement. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Their lean and flashie songs. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. 146 Their mirth is frothy and flashy, such as smooths the brow, but fils not the brest. 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow iii. 31 They are a company of flashy, frothy Fellows. 1745 J. Mason Treat. Self-knowl. iii. vi. 238 To read Froth and Trifles all our Life, is the Way always to retain a flashy and juvenile Turn. 3. a. Giving off flashes, shining by flashes; glittering, sparkling, brilliant. literal and figurative. Also, lasting only for a flash, transitory, momentary. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > flashing flaming?a1400 flashing1548 brandishing1581 lamping1590 lightening1592 flashy1609 fulgid1610 bickering1667 coruscating1705 outflaming1856 aglance1880 flashful1890 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. xii. 239 Flashie lightenings. 1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 13 Reprobates haue oft times many sodaine, transitory, and flashy ioyes. 1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 28 My Gallick Tongue, and my rare flashy Wit, Shall make the Whigs and all the Tories split Themselves with laughing. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 119 I soon felt my flashy Goodness fade. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxv. 343 So flashy and so transient a Glare. 1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 33 She was very flashy, & talked away all the Evening. 1784 C. Burney Let. 16 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 317 I had a good flashey evening. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 35 One ruby glitter'd like the flashy Mars. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Mar. (1939) 144 A fine, flashy, disagreeable day; snow-clouds sweeping past among sunshine. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Life & Lett. (1883) II. 81 I will try to make as interesting an article, though I fear not so flashy, as that on Clive. 1884 Manch. Examiner 11 Sept. 5/1 He looks beyond the momentary triumphs of a flashy and adventurous policy. b. In depreciative sense, chiefly of speech, a speaker, or writer: Superficially bright; brilliant, but shallow; cheaply attractive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > showy or gaudy flashya1690 tawdry1696 long-nebbed1818 a1690 G. Fox Jrnl. I. 108 An high Notionist, and a flashy Man. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 77 The false, flashy Pretender to Wit. 1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. July 89/2 The second-hand report of a flashy rhetorician. 1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 129 Patient merit Obscured awhile by flashy tricks. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 295/1 As stories, these were cheap and flashy. †4. Excited, impulsive, eager. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adjective] brothc1175 impetuous1398 headya1425 brainish1530 hot-brained1556 hot-headed1603 flashy1632 hot-reined1635 scapperboiling1673 warm1749 étourdi1750 torrentuous1840 impulsive1847 unpoised1872 torrential1877 Latin1914 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids xi. 366 The ladie..With light-heel'd flashy haste the horse o'retook. ?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 22 By that time he has discharged his five or six bottles, he will get a little flashy, perhaps. 1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xix. 244 I have seen hounds so flashy, that they would break away from the huntsman as soon as they saw a cover. 5. Showy, fine-looking; gaudy, glaring. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] fine1526 garish1545 flaunting1567 gawish1567 taffety1597 showful1607 flaming1609 flaring1610 over-brave1620 showish1675 rantingc1685 gaudy1709 showy1712 tinselled1738 kicky1790 flaunty1796 flashy1801 slangish1813 florid1815 tigerish1831 flash1836 flary1841 loud1850 flashy-looking1852 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 flagrant1858 jingo1859 cheesy1863 orchidaceous1864 flamboyant1879 vociferous1883 voyant1906 grandstanding1908 floozy1911 ritzy1919 like a (or the) dog's dinner1927 plush horse1936 kitsch1953 zazzy1961 pizzazz1969 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] rankOE peacockly?a1425 ruffling1531 garish1545 peacockish1551 peacock-like1576 ostentatious1590 fastuous?1591 flaring1593 flantitanting1596 ostentive1599 ostentative1601 showful1607 flourishable1614 flourishing1616 flaunting1624 ostentous1624 ostentatory1638 swasha1640 fanfaron1670 paradeful1748 ostensible1782 epideictic1790 fandangous1797 flashy1801 affiché1818 show-off1818 splashing1820 flaunty1825 splash-and-dash1830 pretentious1832 flash1836 splashy1836 pretenceful1841 swanky1842 peacocky1844 fantysheeny1847 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 pretensivea1868 duchessy1870 swagger1879 lavish1882 splurging1884 show-offy1890 razzmatazz1900 show-offish1903 whoop-de-do1904 Ritz1908 split-arse1917 swanking1918 ritzy1919 fantoosh1920 knock-me-down1922 showboating1936 showboat1939 hellzapoppin'1945 zazzy1961 glitzy1966 sploshy1966 zhuzhy1968 noncy1989 bling1999 1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 255 They then got into their carriage, a mighty flashy one, to my mind. 1805 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1835) II. 536 The equipment which I propose..although not so flashy, would be more useful. 1829 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters I. 31 People naturally fond of flashy colours. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 315 The splendour of a very flashy silk waistcoat. 6. Of persons: Given to show, fond of cutting a dash, ‘swellish’; also, vain and conceited. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [adjective] self-liking1580 self-loved1590 self-admiring1592 self-loving1593 self-liked1599 glass-gazing1608 coxcombly1610 self-admired1621 coxcombical1649 self-idolizing1649 vain1692 flashy1693 vaunty1724 coxcombic1730 self-idolized1766 narcissine1805 foofaraw1848 vanitous1900 narcissistic1915 narcistic1918 dicty1920 narcissist1934 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > specifically of persons jettingc1450 ruffling1543 strutting1577 ostentatious1658 flashy1693 parading1741 show-away1776 flash1785 slangy1850 peacocking1873 figuresome1884 fluttersome1895 posey1933 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 6 Young, termagant flashy sinners. a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 2 Those flashy Fellows, your Covent-garden Poets. 1787 G. Colman Inkle & Yarico ii. i. 34 A young flashy Englishman will sometimes carry a whole fortune on his back. 1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 7 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 494 Veteran topers, flashy young men, visitors from the country. Compounds flashy-looking adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] fine1526 garish1545 flaunting1567 gawish1567 taffety1597 showful1607 flaming1609 flaring1610 over-brave1620 showish1675 rantingc1685 gaudy1709 showy1712 tinselled1738 kicky1790 flaunty1796 flashy1801 slangish1813 florid1815 tigerish1831 flash1836 flary1841 loud1850 flashy-looking1852 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 flagrant1858 jingo1859 cheesy1863 orchidaceous1864 flamboyant1879 vociferous1883 voyant1906 grandstanding1908 floozy1911 ritzy1919 like a (or the) dog's dinner1927 plush horse1936 kitsch1953 zazzy1961 pizzazz1969 1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 72 That flashy-looking man in a tandem was transported for bank robbery. 1880 M. Lonsdale Sister Dora viii. 209 A flashy-looking man, with conspicuous rings and watch-chain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1582
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