| 单词 | to flash it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flash it (about or away) a. intransitive. To make a flash or display, cut a figure, show off. Also, to flash it (about or away). Now colloquial or slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. i. 32 A naked gull, Which flashes now a Phœnix. View more context for this quotation 1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. 115 While they with Plaies and Sports doe squib and flash. 1694 J. Collier Misc. v. 48 Methinks 'tis fine..to Flash in the Face of Danger. 1780 H. L. Thrale Let. 29 June in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) I. 409 My master..jokes Peggy Owen for her want of power to flash. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Fontainbleau iii. i Spunging upon my customers, and flashing it away in their old clothes. 1798 Geraldina I. 46 I nod to him..whilst he is flashing the gentleman amongst the girls. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 220 He flashed it about a good deal for a long time..Sometimes he was a lord, at others an earl. < as lemmas |
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