单词 | rotten-rich |
释义 | > as lemmasrotten-rich rotten-rich adj. (and n.) (a) adj. rich or succulent to a degree approaching rottenness (obsolete); (b) adj. extremely wealthy, sometimes with implications of moral corruption; also as n. ΚΠ 1840 R. Browning Sordello ii. 731 Fruits like the fig~tree's, rathe-ripe, rotten-rich. a1881 S. Lanier Poems (1884) 175 Bankers, warehousemen, and sich Was fatt'nin' on the planter, and Tennessy was rotten-rich A-raisin' meat and corn. 1907 G. L. Crockett Plunderer 154 Brown circulated among the floaters,..and asked them if it wasn't just as well for the town to be making money as it was for the rotten rich. 1998 People (Nexis) 4 Jan. 35 She also has a new rotten-rich boss drooling over her. < as lemmas |
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