| 单词 | pyknic practical joke |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspyknic practical joke pyknic practical joke n. the phenomenon whereby a person who begins adult life as a mesomorph later becomes an endomorph; (also) such a person. ΚΠ 1940 W. H. Sheldon et al. Varieties Human Physique vii. 223 We have investigated over forty cases of what we call the PPJ (pyknic practical joke) where an individual who has suddenly grown much heavier, usually in the twenties or early thirties,..has retained bathing-suit pictures of himself in his pristine slenderness. 1942 W. H. Sheldon Varieties of Temperament iv. 109 The mother was a PPJ (pyknic practical joke). She was slim-waisted and active.., but after the first pregnancy she came into her full endomorphic blossom. 1964 L. J. Bischof Interpreting Personality Theories (1970) xi. 431 Pyknic practical joke (PPJ)..,the PPJ refers to a person who has a muscular mesomorphic body in adolescence but in later life balloons out into obesity to become an endomorph. 1982 R. Davies Rebel Angels (U.K. ed.) v. 249 No chance she might turn out to be a Pyknic Practical Joke? < as lemmas |
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