单词 | showing-off |
释义 | > as lemmasshowing-off With adverbs, forming adjectives corresponding to phrasal verbs at show v. Esp. in showing-off. ΚΠ 1805 A. A. Opie Adeline Mowbray I. iii. 37 Mrs. Mowbray was, if I may be allowed the expression, a showing-off woman. 1913 R. McDonald Lanchester of Brazenose xii. 120 He ran, frisking languid-like—a showing-off sort of a style, as if he was no better than a girl. a1941 V. Woolf New Dress in Haunted House (1944) 49 The looking-glass..that dreadfully showing-up blue pool. 2010 J. Kelman If it is your Life 137 Women always watched themselves. Men did not, except in a showing-off way. < as lemmas |
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