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单词 rip van winkleish
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Rip Van Winkleishadj.

Brit. /ˌrɪp van ˈwɪŋklɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌrɪp vən ˈwɪŋk(ə)lɪʃ/
Forms: 1800s– Rip Van Winkleish, 1800s– Rip Van Winklish. Also with lower-case initial in the second element.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Rip Van Winkle , -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < the name of Rip Van Winkle (see Rip Van Winkle n.) + -ish suffix1.
Characteristic of or resembling Rip Van Winkle; not aware of or alert to present (esp. social and political) conditions.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc.
old-fashioned1596
musty1603
mildewed1605
fusty1609
wormy1611
frumpy1746
fossila1770
arriéré1814
has-been1819
Rip Van Winkleish1829
frumpish1847
archaistic1850
fogey1852
fogeyish1852
old fogeyish1853
rusty-fusty1864
mossbacked1876
dead-handed1928
Victorian1934
unhep1939
unhip1939
dinosaurian1943
square1946
dinosaur-like1947
dinosauric1977
analogue1993
1829 Mechanic's Press (Utica, N.Y.) 5 Dec. 28/1 His Rip Van Winkleish habits asked no more than to pursue ‘the even tenor of their way’.
1852 Harper's Mag. Aug. 420/2 A Pilgrim from the backwoods..had just been awakened from a Rip-Van-Winkleish existence of a quarter of a century by the steam-whistle of the Erie Railroad.
1861 Macphail's Edinb. Eccl. Jrnl. Nov. 210 This is surely Spanish or Italian rule, or a Rip-Van-Winklish sleep has fallen on some of the men who lived before Clive.
1911 M. Beerbohm Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 195 It made me feel very Rip-Van-Winkleish to find no Alfred Douglas.
1947 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 60 326 It is more likely that the tales of retreat underground and Rip Van Winkleish slumbers..are in the main part of Pythagorean and Orphic mumbo jumbo.
2002 Boston Herald (Nexis) 16 May 45 In these scenes, the old Lucas stirs from his Rip Van Winkleish slumber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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