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单词 pasteboardy
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pasteboardyadj.

Brit. /ˈpeɪs(t)bɔːdi/, U.S. /ˈpeɪs(t)ˌbɔrdi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pasteboard n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pasteboard n. + -y suffix1. Compare boardy adj. Compare earlier pasteboard-like adj. at pasteboard n. and adj. Derivatives.
Now rare.
Resembling pasteboard; thin, insubstantial; = pasteboard-like adj. at pasteboard n. and adj. Derivatives.
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1862 H. Guillod Jrnl. Trip Cariboo 28 June in Brit. Columbia Hist. Q. (1955) 19 197 How much prettier the slanting roofs are than the flat pasteboardy ones of San Francisco.
1878 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 574/2 The construction is of the thinnest, most pasteboardy kind.
1887 E. S. Brooks Historic Girls (1915) 186 A hollow, pasteboardy voice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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