swellismn.
/ˈswɛlɪz(ə)m/ colloquial.
The character, style, or practice of a ‘swell’.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of
fashion1604
mode1668
bon-ton1747
haut ton1801
swellism1840
West Endism1841
swellishness1863
toffishness1873
mundanity1892
swellness1894
1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 796/2 The only point of swellism which the Lord Advocate usually lacks, is white kids.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. ix. 188 Selwyn would be..contemptuous of Blake's swellism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1840- trade way
- trade wind
- trade with oneself
- trade word
- trade work
- trade-creating
- trade-destroying
- trade-fallen
- trade-in
- trade-last
- to throw aside
- to throw at all
- to throw at one's heels
- to throw away
- to throw away the key
- to throw away the scabbard
- to throw back
- to throw bouquets
- to throw by
- to throw cast a stone or stones
- to throw cast a stone or stones at
- to throw caution to the wind
- to throw caution to the winds
- to throw chuck one's weight about or around
- to throw chuck, in the towel