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单词 mamamouchi
释义

Mamamouchin.

Forms: 1600s Mammamouchy, 1600s–1700s Mamamouchi, 1700s Mammamouchi.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mamamouchi.
Etymology: < French mamamouchi, an imaginary Turkish title (invented by Molière in Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) iv. iii, where it is pretended to have been conferred by the Sultan upon M. Jourdain).
Obsolete.
Occasionally: a pompous-sounding title; (also) a person assuming such a title; a pretender to elevated dignity, viewed as an object of derision.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > person
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Mamamouchi1672
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > mock title
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gallantship1579
elderberriness1589
excelsitude1599
bellyship1600
rascalship1605
madamship1620
muttonship1632
merchantshipa1640
minxshipa1640
prerogativeship1645
fairship1647
mayorship1648
his tallness1656
curship1663
goodyship1663
Mamamouchi1672
lowness1687
ghostship?1689
lairdship1715
grandship1747
supremacy1766
honourableship1767
beautyship1772
gravityship1772
titularity1777
lordship1800
ethereality1806
elegancy1819
king1823
accidency1830
transparency1844
1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman iv. i. 84 He will make you a Mamamouchi, which is the greatest honour and dignity among the Turks.
1673 J. Dryden Assignation Prol. sig. A6 You must have Mamamouchi, such a Fop As would appear a Monster in a Shop.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §5. 233 So then he drops his mammamouchi Outside of Oates's Plot in the dark, no more to be heard of in that Reign.
1749 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 287 This ridiculous Mamamouchi [sc. the Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of Cambridge University].

Compounds

General attributive.
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1673 Mem. Madam Charlton 12 Charlton fancies nothing less than to be made a Duke, or some strange Mammamouchy-Titulado.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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