单词 | tigerism |
释义 | tigerismn. 1. The qualities or characteristics of a ‘tiger’ (tiger n. 7); vulgar ostentation or affectation; pretentiousness, ‘side’, ‘swagger’. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] boast1297 strut1303 bombancec1325 bobantc1330 bobancec1380 ambitionc1384 oliprancec1390 pretence?a1439 ostentationa1475 pransawtea1500 bravity1546 finesse1549 bravery1573 overlashing1579 brave1596 peacockry1596 garishness1598 maggot ostentation1598 ostent1609 flaunta1625 spectability1637 vantation1637 fastuousness1649 fastuosity1656 finery1656 parade1656 phantastry1656 ostentatiousness1658 éclat1704 pretension1706 braw1724 swell1724 showiness1730 ostensibility1775 fanfaronade1784 display1816 showing off1822 glimmer1827 tigerism1836 peacockery1844 show-off1846 flare1847 peacockism1854 swank1854 tigerishness1869 flashness1888 flamboyance1891 peacockishness1892 flamboyancy1896 swankiness1920 plushness1949 glitziness1982 fantasia- fantastication- the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity community1600 vulgarness1642 vulgar1655 vulgarism1749 vulgaritya1774 tigerism1836 plebeianness1840 shopkeeperism1843 vulgarianism1920 corniness1932 kitschiness1971 1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 455 We have the neologismal appellatives, ‘tiger’, and ‘tigerism’,—words of great intensity and signification, without which it would be impossible to get on for ‘one calendar day’ in genteel society. 1863 R. H. Gronow Reminisc. II. 144 All his imitators fell between the Scylla and Charybdis of tigerism and charlatanism. 1868 C. J. Lever Bramleighs I. x. 137 His lordship now placed his hat on his head, slightly on one side. It was the ‘tigerism’ of a past period. 2. The condition and functions of a ‘tiger’ or juvenile groom (tiger n. 6). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > groom > position of equerryship1611 groomship1691 tigerhood1846 tigerism1846 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 117 The nature and attributes of tigerism, however, as set forth by the gallant captain, were far from unsatisfactory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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