单词 | saugrenu |
释义 | saugrenuadj. Absurd, preposterous, ridiculous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [adjective] impertinenta1425 royeta1522 absurd1531 preposterous1533 ridiculous1533 deaf?1541 monstrous?1549 fabulous1561 fanatical1598 fantastical1600 laughable1600 fantasticc1616 nonsense1621 arsy-versy1628 absonous1642 nonsensical1645 ridicule?1669 fancical1671 grotesque1747 rich1836 saugrenu1876 laughsome1884 cockeyed1894 hilarious1925 Rube Goldberg1928 whimsy-whamsy1931 Rube Goldbergian1933 cockamamie1941 fantasticated1960 fanciful- the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adjective] > ridiculous gamelyOE jape-worthyc1374 foolisha1500 ridiculous1533 ludibrious1570 laughable1600 mockablea1616 laughworthy1616 ludicral1656 derisible1657 absurd1716 grotesque1747 tomfool1762 irrisible1767 ludicrous1782 deridable1804 saugrenu1876 screwy1887 derisive1896 josh1908 nutty1915 derisory1923 dingbat1935 bonkers1961 joky1964 1876 W. James Let. 5 July in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 371 The saugrenu, comic Shakespeare scenes. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 18 Oct. (1967) 110 I have many adventures to tell you of—some assez saugrenues. 1908 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe (ed. 2) xiii. 440 The Great Powers of Europe are very like ordinary prejudiced individuals, not to say the lower animals. What they shy at one day, what they denounce with diminishing invective as impossible, revolutionary sangrenu, or crude, they accept a few years later as a matter of course. 1933 Notes & Queries CLXV. 378/2 If we take ‘chevalier’ as addressed by Christ to the poet, do we not get merely a retort—frigid, and, by reason of the historical association a little saugrenu? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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