单词 | bovrilized |
释义 | bovrilizedadj. British. Now rare. Reduced to its essence; epitomized or condensed. Also: (of written language) highly abbreviated. ΚΠ 1899 Academy 14 Oct. 428/2 This lightning Baedeker—this bovrilised Murray. 1901 Daily News 11 Jan. 5/1 Here..is one of these ‘bovrilised’ announcements..: Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. lady, 35; good Fr.; good refs.; would trav. R.R., 100. 1902 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 8/7 He must give us not life, but the essence of it—a bovrilised version, as it were. 1967 D. Whitington In Search of Australian iii. 33 It is all at Vadim's, compressed and Bovrilized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adj.1899 |
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