单词 | got-up |
释义 | got-upadj.n. A. adj. 1. With modifying adverb. That has been prepared, produced, dressed, or turned out in a specified way. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adjective] > ornamented or decorated depaint?c1225 ornedc1384 trappeda1400 attiredc1400 bolled1400 picked?c1425 bedighta1440 garnishedc1440 well-apparelledc1450 decorate1460 adorned?1473 ornate?a1475 anorneda1500 decked?a1500 exornate1509 redimite?a1513 well-decked1530 adornate1539 prankedc1550 entrapped?1553 bested1558 distinct1596 embellished1598 well-tricked1599 enamelled1604 gaudeda1616 broidered1616 farded1637 phalerated1656 adorn1667 bedecked1671 gayed1671 fancied1688 phalerate1702 decorated1727 ornamented1730 orné1763 got-up1793 gotten-up1796 apparelled1821 engrailed1848 the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together positivec1385 artificial?c1425 craftlya1492 wroughta1500 preparated1569 made1580 elaborate1583 elaborate1592 elaborated1596 handmade1603 arted1606 factitiousa1624 made-up1677 fictitious1686 man-madea1718 got-up1793 gotten-up1796 canned1878 artefact1909 prefabricated1935 1793 Diary; or, Woodfall's Reg. 21 Aug. The last new Entertainment..is a most excellent well got up piece. 1841 L. S. Costello Pilgrimage Auvergne I. 336 Plaited collars and delicately got-up linen. 1880 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. The principal publishing houses prepare magnificently got-up books which are works of art in themselves. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 155/2 The strongly-bound and neatly got-up volumes of the Geological Survey of the United States. 1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xxx. 102 Do you not like exquisite women? Perfectly got-up women? 1955 A. L. Rowse Diary 8 Sept. (2003) 183 The well-got-up and expensively dressed young women filed in and out, attended by their obsequious young men. 1989 P. Creagh tr. C. Magris Danube i. 34 The Mulatto to whom a Spanish woman presents a smartly got-up Morisco. 2. Artificially produced, elaborated, or adorned, for purposes of effect or deception. Also: †(well) equipped in a subject (obsolete). ΚΠ 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 199 He snubbed me..for exposing my ignorance to these well got-up Doctrinaires. 1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 86 I believe it to be..a got-up business for effect. ?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship xviii. 119 Such follies are very well for got up puppies. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. xii. 186 Stuff and nonsense! I don't believe a word of it. It's all a got-up story. 1883 Times (Weekly ed.) 28 Dec. 6/4 Some days after this little got-up play, which seemed to have produced the desired effect. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surveys (1987) ii. 115 It at last dawns on them that most of Selfridge's got-up face is only temporary—one lends me field glasses to look at scaffolding behind street decorations. 1996 Spectator 31 Aug. 23/3 A beef stew, a scarf, a shower of rain are routinely greeted with ludicrously got-up ecstasy. colloquial. An upstart. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes Jack-gentleman1550 truck-knight1625 court-card1699 parvenu1787 cocktail1839 gent1843 shoneena1849 snob1848 shoddyite1865 got-up1881 shoddy1904 1881 Macmillan's Mag. 44 383 How dare that ‘got-up’ give himself airs with his horses and dogs! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1793 |
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