单词 | smack-talking |
释义 | smack-talkingadj. U.S. colloquial (esp. in sporting contexts). Of a person: that engages in boastful or insulting banter; that talks smack (cf. to talk smack at talk v. Additions). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful > specifically of words or actions boastfulc1325 self-boasting1599 vaunting1647 smack-talking1990 1990 Los Angeles Sentinel 15 Mar. a6/1 A buddy of mine was buried on Friday, a fun-loving, smack-talking 23-year-old. 1997 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 22 Nov. c9 The questioner tried his best to bait..Florida's smack-talking, hard-hitting linebacker. 2006 P. Williams Draft xii. 204 The smack-talking alpha male of the locker room. 2009 K. Norman-Bellamy Lyon's Den 24 The thought of his gun-toting, smack-talking sister made Stuart laugh too. ‘I don't know, man. I mean, she puts up a believable front.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1990 |
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