单词 | anticness |
释义 | anticnessn. rare after 17th cent. Antic quality or character; absurdity; incongruity. Cf. antic adj. ΘΚΠ 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 ridiculousness1573 anticness1638 ludicrousness1773 grotesqueness1826 ludicrositya1856 1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 57 A port of humorous anticknesse in carriage. 1680 Don Tomazo 40 The antickness of her behaviour was such as shew'd her jealous of Tomazo's design in coming to visit her. 2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Mar. c1 Buddy Ebsen..brought a certain vaudeville anticness to the role of Crockett's sidekick, Georgie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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