单词 | baddishness |
释义 | baddishnessn. Chiefly colloquial. Now rare. Baddish quality or condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [noun] poornessa1382 povertya1387 bada1425 lessness?a1425 worsenessa1425 nethertyc1443 minority1533 badness1539 lesserness1540 evilness1547 meanness1556 punyship1581 inferiority1599 under1600 worserness1602 inferiorness1674 deteriority1692 baddishness1824 shoddiness1886 crumbiness1949 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 144 The baddishness of the crops. 1856 J. E. R. Hornblower Nellie of Truro xxi. 134 The boarding-school mill had turned him out..a character in which a little common-place ‘baddishness’ has injured the fine sensibilities. 1880 J. Holmes 18 Nov. in Lett. to J. R. Lowell & Others (1917) 185 Fine weather for some ten days, after several weeks' cold rain—a drop or two of snow, and general baddishness. 1997 Re: The Curtain Call? in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct. Duncan tries to talk the bad-guy Immortal out of his baddishness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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