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单词 sunburstery
释义

sunbursteryn.

Brit. /ˈsʌnbəːst(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsənˌbərst(ə)ri/
Forms:

α. 1800s– sunburstery.

β. 1800s– sunburstry.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sunburst n., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < sunburst n. + -ery suffix.With β. forms compare -ry suffix.
In Ireland: exaggerated or excessive patriotism; nationalist rhetoric relying on emotional appeal rather than practical or critical thought.With reference to the use of sunburst imagery to symbolize various Irish nationalist and republican movements in the 19th cent.; see sunburst n. 2a.
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1868 J. Mitchel in Irish Citizen (N.Y.) 25 Apr. 4/1 All these things have been sinking into men's hearts, and preparing our race for something far more perilous to English power than all the fanfaronade and sunburstery.
1887 B. Magennis Lamh Dearg 167 A vapid speech in which greenflagism and sunburstry form the leading features with a side hint that the only way to settle the Irish question is by a resort to physical force.
1908 Cornhill Mag. May 635 He had no patience with..‘sunburstery’, that is to say, a flamboyant and insincere patriotism.
1979 Bks. Ireland Sept. 138/1 All the tub-thumpers are regaling us with sunburstry about the League sweeping the landlords out of Ireland, and the like.
2002 Irish News (Nexis) 13 Apr. 6 He is mesmerising young voters with sunburstery about a united Ireland over the rainbow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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