| 单词 | pigtail party |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspigtail party C1. derogatory. Designating or relating to a person who wears a pigtail; designating something characteristic of the period when pigtailed wigs were worn; (hence) designating something old-fashioned, pedantic, or excessively formal, as pigtail drill, pigtail party, pigtail professor, pigtail Tory, etc. Now rare.In quot. 1899 designating a party favourable to the Chinese (see sense 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 Jan. 121 What, then, do the Pigtail gentry, assembled at the ‘Police Office, Manchester’, object to this? 1865 M. Pattison in N. Brit. Rev. 42 253 Heyne was essentially a dull, wooden man,—a pigtail professor after all. 1885 Leisure Hour Jan. 32/1 Emancipation from the ‘pigtail drill’. 1898 Athenæum 19 Mar. 366/1 He was a typical ‘pigtail Tory’. 1899 Daily News 25 Oct. 2/1 Mr. Yerburgh, the leader of what was known last Session as ‘the Pigtail Party’ in the House of Commons, is contemplating a journey to China. 1909 Englishman Apr. 295 Orchestral interpretation need no longer be at the mercy of the ‘pig-tail’ school. < as lemmas |
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