单词 | glitzy |
释义 | glitzyadj. slang (originally and chiefly North American). Characterized by glitter or extravagant show; ostentatious, glamorous; hence, tawdry, gaudy; glitteringly spectacular, but in poor taste. Cf. glittering adj. 2, glitterati n. ΘΚΠ 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 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [adjective] theatric1656 spectacular1682 theatrical1709 dramatic1726 sensationary1755 pyrotechnical1825 grandstand1835 pyrotechnic1848 sensational1859 razzle-dazzle1888 whizz-bang1919 glitzy1966 1966 N.Y. Times 31 Aug. 66/4 Advertising will stress that Devil Shake is ‘glitzy’. This claim will be hard to deny, at least until someone defines the word. 1968 Britannica Bk. of Year 745/1 John Kander's music,..Patricia Zipprodt's glitzy-tawdry costumes, and Ronald Field's wittily obscene choreography were fused..into a corrosively brilliant symbol of human depravity. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 138/2 This number, like the ballet as a whole, is much too restless and glitzy. 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Nov. 1/4 The restaurants of the future..will..be big gala places with entertainment and booze-ups and big bills...The Cossacks has gone glitzy. 1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 5/3 The five man band play havoc-wreaking rock 'n' roll, much in the tacky, glitzy style of lamented British Bands such as Spearhead and the Heavy Metal Kids. 1979 Maclean's 28 May 51/1 But in a forum ringing with the clack of easy typewriters and the back-thumping of glitzy cynics, words like style, art, commitment are booed offstage. 1983 E. Leonard LaBrava (1985) i. 7 But look at the dressing room, all the glitzy crap, the tinfoil cheapness. 1985 Listener 21 Mar. 27/1 The Oscars are the high point of the Western film industry's year—a glitzy, vulgar affirmation that they're getting things right. Derivatives glitz n. [as a back-formation] an extravagant but superficial display; showiness, ostentation, esp. show-business glamour or sparkle. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display pompc1330 vaunterya1492 pomping pridec1503 braga1513 flaunt-a-flaunt1576 plume1580 affecting1584 top and topgallant1593 ruffle1609 parado1621 riota1649 flutter1667 show1713 sprunk1746 to make a splash1804 show-off1811 paraffle1816 shine1819 splurge1828 gaud1831 spludge1831 poppy-show1860 razzle1885 razzmatazz1917 foofaraw1933 showbiz1970 glitz1977 1977 New Republic 19 Feb. 21/2 Stoppard's plays have been marked by undergraduate cleverness and glitz and ultimate sterility. 1977 Time 4 July 52/2 Her style is often derivative of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, but Babitz has the one indispensable quality for her kind of work: true glitz. 1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 200/1 One American reviewer swooned over Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz's latest bundle of glitz. 1985 Toronto Life Sept. 41/3 There was too much Third-World esoterica and not enough Hollywood glitz. Draft additions 1993 ˈglitzily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adverb] flauntingly1584 garishly1593 showfully1613 flashily1736 showily1755 gaudily1764 violently1771 flauntily1830 loudly1849 snazzily1980 glitzily1982 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adverb] boggishlya1375 with great renowna1400 jettingly1440 flourishingly?1545 rufflingly1575 flaunt-a-flaunt1576 peacock-like1576 peacockwise1577 peacockly1580 aflaunt1584 vauntingly1593 wealth boastingly1593 prankingly1610 fastuously1654 ostentativelya1658 ostentously1665 ostentatiously1671 showily1755 violently1771 paradingly1792 peacockically1834 peacockishly1834 pretentiously1848 ostensibly1855 slangily1858 peacocky1860 splurgily1887 swankily1924 glitzily1982 1982 Time 20 Dec. 87/3 When the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem.., things like this open less glitzily. 1991 P. Roth Patrimony ii. 25 The lamps..were a little glitzily ornate and surprisingly uncharacteristic of my mother's prim, everything-in-its-place aesthetic. ˈglitziness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour glamour1937 glam1961 zhuzh1968 showbiz1970 glitziness1982 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] boast1297 strut1303 bombancec1325 bobantc1330 bobancec1380 ambitionc1384 oliprancec1390 pretence?a1439 ostentationa1475 pransawtea1500 bravity1546 finesse1549 bravery1573 overlashing1579 brave1596 peacockry1596 garishness1598 maggot ostentation1598 ostent1609 flaunta1625 spectability1637 vantation1637 fastuousness1649 fastuosity1656 finery1656 parade1656 phantastry1656 ostentatiousness1658 éclat1704 pretension1706 braw1724 swell1724 showiness1730 ostensibility1775 fanfaronade1784 display1816 showing off1822 glimmer1827 tigerism1836 peacockery1844 show-off1846 flare1847 peacockism1854 swank1854 tigerishness1869 flashness1888 flamboyance1891 peacockishness1892 flamboyancy1896 swankiness1920 plushness1949 glitziness1982 fantasia- fantastication- 1982 Washington Post 14 Feb. (Book World) 8/1 He describes..the nature of quarks.., the shallow glitziness of Cosmos, and the operation of fusion reactors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。