| 单词 | high cockalorum |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh cockalorum 2. A person likened to a small or young cockerel or rooster; a pompous or self-important person. Also (esp. in high cockalorum): an important person; a boss or chief. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person bug1536 bladder1579 God almighty1632 cockalorumc1796 his nibs1821 prima donna1834 fly on the (coach-)wheel1840 high muck-a-muck1856 nobs1877 high muckety-muck1882 muckamuck1883 Pooh Bah1886 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 muckety-muck1927 Pooter1957 cheese1965 c1796–8 Cam ye o'er frae France in Greig-Duncan Folk Song Coll. (1981) I. 324 Hey for Sandy Don, Hey for Cockolorum, Hey for Bobbing John! An' his Highland quorum! 1836 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 15 Dec. He..called him a cockalorum, and finally denounced him as an inflated, overgrown, purse-proud capitalist. 1881 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 437 Lord James Butler as high cockalorum of the Protestants. 1925 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 7 Mar. 8/4 He is the whole six and holy high cockalorum of the outfit. 1944 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Sept. 475/1 To ‘clarify the situation’, as highbrow cockalorums would say. 1990 P. Rosenblatt Constant Lover xxix. 92 She was now married to a goldsmith, a mustachioed cockalorum, he said, who had bartered his way through the war. < as lemmas |
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