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单词 mobbish
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mobbishadj.

Brit. /ˈmɒbɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈmɑbɪʃ/
Forms: 1600s– mobbish, 1700s mobish.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mob n.2, -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < mob n.2 + -ish suffix1.
Resembling or having the characteristics of a mob; disorderly, tumultuous; crowded. Also (usually depreciative): characteristic of or appealing to the common people.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > vulgar
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
porterlike1568
mechanical1584
souterly1589
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
porterly1603
tavernly1612
plebeian1615
vulgar1643
mobbish1695
pothouse1780
commonish1792
common1804
vulgarian1833
vulgarish1860
unselect1867
off-colour1875
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > riotous
tempestousc1374
tempestuous1447
uproarish1550
tumultuous1576
routious1602
tumultuary1650
ramp1678
mobbish1695
royet1737
riotous1775
rumbustiousa1777
rumbustical1779
rampageous1800
rioty1819
rampacious1836
tempestive1848
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]
carlisha1240
lewdc1380
carlc1450
villain1483
ruffian1528
shake-ragged1550
porterlike1568
popular1583
ungracious1584
ordinarya1586
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
round-headed1598
base-like1600
strummell-patch1600
porterly1603
scrubbing1603
vernaculous1607
plebeian1615
reptile1653
proletarian1663
mobbish1695
low1725
terraefilial1745
low-lifed1747
Whitechapel1785
lowlife1794
boweryish1846
gutter1849
bowery1852
lowish1886
swab1914
lumpen1944
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds > tending to
mobbish1695
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] > belonging to the rabble > characteristic of or resembling
routish1642
mobbish1695
1695 Whether Parl. be dissolved by Death of Princess of Orange 4 They turn more Mobbish than a Dover Court.
1699 J. Collier Second Def. Short View Eng. Stage 398 The Surveyor gives the Text a mobbish Turn, and foists in some of his own ill Language.
1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. Pref. Disc. p. cv His Mobish fallacious way of arguing.
1732 Earl of Oxford in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS Comm.) 156 I never was in so mobbish a place, we could scarce walk the streets for the numbers of people that flocked about us.
1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 332 In many counties, where the people were divided, mobbish combats and skirmishes ensued.
1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 58 As if it was possible, after rousing, by inflammatory publications, the mobbish spirit, that you could draw the line of moderation.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 190 The group..were in ordinary Lowland dresses..which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance. View more context for this quotation
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 512 The mobbish love of destruction.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vii. 355 Be judicial, arithmetical, in passing sentence on it [sc. Voltaire's fraud]; not shrieky, mobbish, and flying off into the Infinite!
1920 Q. Rev. July 166 This mobbish or, as it may be termed, ‘synnomic’ character of primitive mentality is well known.
1975 K. Miller Cockburn's Millennium 252 This was the mobbish county which, six years before, had threatened to burke Sir Walter.
1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 44/3 Anywhere else in the world, he'd probably be a star too. Fighting off mobbish autograph hunters.
1997 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 28/8 The young women had been ritually humiliated simply to satisfy a mobbish appetite for cheap but exciting competition.

Derivatives

ˈmobbishly adv. now rare
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously
riotously?1435
tempestuously1447
riotibly1509
royetously1536
tumultuously1548
disorderly1564
disorderously1579
turbulently1602
tumultuarily1609
routously1615
uproarishly1647
unguidedly1660
mobbishly1716
a-riot1834
rumbustiously1840
riotingly1846
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 250 The tumultuous Citizens of Thessalonica..having mobbishly murder'd one of the Emperor's Lieutenants.
1766 C. Chauncy Disc. ‘Good News’ 26 Some mobishly disposed persons.
1825 Lancet 13 Aug. 179/2 This room..was nearly filled by Pupils and Surgeons..the latter standing on what may be termed the stage, and obstructing and mobbishly closing up its whole area.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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