| 单词 | nose-thumbing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnose-thumbing nose-thumbing n. the action or an act of thumbing one's nose at someone. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > [noun] > making derisive gesture blearingc1440 nose-thumbing1930 1930 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 4 42 Therein one becomes cognizant with such delectable news that on seventeen occasions the guardians of Staatsmoral were obliged to kick out ‘reference to suicide’... ‘Nose-thumbing’..was hurled outside 32 times. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xiv. 317 That peculiar form of recognition variously known as ‘the five-finger salute’, ‘nose thumbing’,..‘cocking a snook’, or ‘taking a sight’ used, thirty years ago, to be demonstrated by every child in the country. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Nov. 63/1 For Katel to show up in the middle of the day, shooting off his rifle only a few miles from where Arafat sat in his office, was a neat bit of nose-thumbing. < as lemmas |
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