| 单词 | to cut a swell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut a swell b. Proud or arrogant, or (in later use) pompous or pretentious air or behaviour; (a piece of) swagger. to cut a swell, to ‘cut a dash’, swagger. (Cf. swell v. 9, 10) ? Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pride > [noun] > proud behaviour swell1724 the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] pompositya1538 ventosity?1545 pontificality1600 bigness1634 fast1673 swell1724 bumbledom1847 highfalutin1847 highfalutination1858 pompousness1870 largeness1887 falutin1921 hugaboo1930 stuffed-shirtedness1981 fantasia- 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- 1724 Briton No. 28. 123 There is such a Swell and Insolence in most of those who can maintain any Degree of Mastery. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 179. ⁋4 The softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity. 1800 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1801) 4 61 To see our young lords and our young gentlemen ‘cutting a swell’, as the fashionable phrase is. 1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. IV. 232 The trio, having been to the play, agreed to call in at Smith's, by way of a swell, to get sixpennyworth of oysters each. 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. i. 222 They..practice it in shows, and swells, and all the petty airs of foppery and brave assumption. < as lemmas |
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