| 单词 | four-flusher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈfour-flusher ˈfour-flusher n. a pretender, braggart, humbug. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person affecter1607 snuffler1642 languisher1713 attitudinarian1756 attitudinizer1824 pseudo1829 posturer1833 posturist1857 poseur1869 affectationist1873 Turveydrop1877 posturant1882 poser1888 four-flusher1904 gobdaw1947 nerd1951 pseud1954 jive-ass1964 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner > who bluffs screamer1831 blagueur1883 bluff1904 four-flusher1904 sprucer1917 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 255 Four-flusher, one who poses for effect. 1910 Outlook 25 June 376 Many doubted his intention, and one newspaper called him a ‘four-flusher’. 1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd ii. 30 Some of the four-flushers..kept eyeing that bluff. 1920 A. B. Baxter Parts Men Play xxi. §1 Vot you mean, you great big fourflusher? 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vi. 106 I could have sized up this Maddigan four-flusher if he had merely walked across the campus in my freshman year. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters ii. 22 You're a fine bunch of four-flushers. 1944 L. A. G. Strong Director xiii. 112 You shouldn't let these four-flushers come it over you. < as lemmas |
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