单词 | ballyhooing |
释义 | ballyhooingn. Originally U.S. Extravagant praise or promotion; bombastic talk; fuss, commotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > excessive overpraisinga1250 advancea1400 puffing1593 overpraise1691 bepraisement1831 ballyhooing1902 1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 8 Sept. The Ohio semi-professionals failing to make good the ballyhooing that preceded them as Toledo's local champions. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Apr. 1/1 He has been a high pressure publicity man in rigging and ballyhooing of stocks in the past ten years. 1988 Nature 31 Mar. 387/2 With all the ballyhooing, it is important to remember that nobody has even sequenced E. coli yet. 2006 Denver Westword (Nexis) 16 Feb. U.K. music scribes have always been addicted to hype—but their ballyhooing of Arctic Monkeys is over the top even by their standards. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1902 |
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