单词 | boreism |
释义 | boreismn. The characteristic behaviour of bores; the practice of being a bore. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person > behaviour or practice of tedious or dull person boreism1833 boredom1864 stodgery1920 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 737/2 Borism is fast attaining a head it never reached before. 1839 H. L. Anderson Haileybury Observ. i. 20 An intolerable mixture of impertinence and boreism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1833 |
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