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单词 brickish
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brickishadj.

Brit. /ˈbrɪkɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: brick n.1, -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < brick n.1 + -ish suffix1. Compare earlier bricky adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling brick or bricks; spec. of a colour resembling that of brick (cf. brick adj.1 2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red
rustya1398
hepaticc1420
horseflesh1530
rubiginousa1538
iron1587
bricky1615
ferrugineous1633
sand-reda1639
brickish1648
ferruginous1656
lateritious1656
brick-coloured1675
blood bay1684
testaceous1688
rust-coloureda1691
brick-red1740
brick-dust-like1765
maroon1771
rufous1782
brick-dusty1817
rusted1818
worm red1831
brownish-red1832
brown-red1835
foxy1850
rust1854
henna-coloured1865
chestnut-red1882
terra-cotta1882
copper-red1883
fox-red1910
oxblood1918
tony1921
henna-brown1931
henna-red2002
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [adjective] > built of brick
brick-built1596
bricky1596
brickish1648
bricked1664
bricken1851
bricks and mortar1862
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [adjective] > made or constructed of brick
brick-built1596
bricky1596
brickish1648
bricked1664
bricken1851
bricks and mortar1862
1648 R. Josselin Diary 18 Feb. (1976) 112 My former breakings and sediments were red brickish stuffe, and much flegme like putrified stuffe in the bottome.
?1776 S. Weston Viaggiana 88 Their [sc. the frescoes'] colour is a good deal gone, and at present rather of a brickish hue.
1843 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Week at Killarney 187 An attempt at preserving the arch has been clumsily made—patched with red brickish plaster: surely a little trouble would have procured the original red sandstone from Glengariff.
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 41 Thou [sc. Oxford] hast a base and brickish skirt there.
1928 Harper's Monthly Mag. June 577/2 She had neatly rubbed her thin cheeks with a brickish, dusty-looking rouge.
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells i. 1 Brickish Kentish Town seen through the leaves of Highgate.
1989 K. Smith Inside Time ii. 22 The wall has interposed its solemnity, its solid, brickish fact.
2016 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Extra) 4 Barolo is not really made to be drunk young and its distinctive brickish colour is usually the result of at least a few years' ageing.
2. slang or colloquial (now somewhat dated).
a. Of a thing: excellent, first-rate. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [adjective]
goodOE
winlyOE
snella1000
winc1275
boonc1325
cleana1375
tidya1375
positivea1398
comelyc1400
kindc1400
kindly?a1425
well-formeda1425
trim?a1513
wally?a1513
bonnya1525
delicatea1533
goodlike1562
sappy1563
bein1567
rum1567
benedict1576
warrantable1581
true (also good, sure) as touch1590
goodlisomea1603
respectable1603
clever1738
amusing1753
plummy1787
bone1793
brickish1843
mooi1850
ryebuck1859
spandy1868
greatisha1871
healthy1878
popular1884
beefy1903
onkus1910
quies1919
cushty1929
high-powered1969
not shabby1975
1843 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury xvii, in Bentley's Misc. Jan. 122 ‘How's the times?’ ‘Brickish.’
b. Of a person: characterized by good-heartedness, generosity, helpfulness, and reliability. Cf. brick n.1 6.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective]
custyeOE
room-handeda1200
largea1225
free?c1225
plenteousc1350
bounteousc1374
liberalc1384
free-hearteda1398
ungnedea1400
royalc1405
opena1425
plentifula1475
profuse?a1475
ungrighta1475
lavishc1475
almifluent1477
prodigous1477
frank1484
bountiful1508
largifluent?a1525
munificent1565
magnificent1577
largeous1583
munifical1583
magnifical1586
free-handed1592
frolic1593
open-handed1593
magnific?1594
prodigal1595
goodwillya1598
communicativea1602
real1602
prodig1605
unniggard1605
generous1615
open-hearteda1617
large-handeda1628
unniggardly1628
fluent1633
profusive1638
numerous1655
largifical1656
insordid1660
unsparing1667
dispensive1677
expensive1678
wasteful1701
flush1703
unboundeda1704
genteel1741
munific1745
magnifique1751
ungrudginga1774
unstinting1845
brickish1860
flaithulach1876
princely1889
outgiving1896
sharing1922
two-handed1929
1860 Punch 8 Sept. 98/1 ‘British’ we know is synonymous with ‘brickish’, and as slopsellers are never known to act like bricks, they clearly cannot claim that their origin is British.
1883 Boy's Own Paper 3 Feb. 290/1 Very brickish of you to have us up. We all thought so, didn't we, Crow?
1920 M. Jervis Rose o' Sea xvi. 112 It's absolutely brickish of you to want to help me at all. I'd love it if you would!
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 127/1 Tim's solid brother..reappears and turns out to be wholly brickish.
2007 A. Dillard Maytrees 11 Well, that was considerate, brickish of him, to say that they would not go in.

Derivatives

ˈbrickishness n. slang or colloquial (now somewhat dated) the quality of being good-hearted or brickish (sense 2b).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good person > personality or quality of
goodliheadc1425
brickishness1854
1854 D. G. Rossetti Let. 17 May (1965) I. 199 Let me impress on your brickishness that I have no tin [= money] and that rent here is due on Saturday.
1873 J. Duns Mem. Sir J. Y. Simpson xv. 518 My brother David and I communicated to each other the discovery we had made of ‘what a brick’ he was, and agreed that his ‘brickishness’ called for our care in not vexing him.
1906 Daily Chron. 26 July 3/2 Janet's sheer ‘brickishness’ held her faithful to her organist.
1924 F. M. Ford Some do Not i. vi. 163 They had talked..about the brickishness of the parson in taking her in.
1996 Times 20 Feb. 13/2 Her brickishness adds weight to her mother's theory that people can triumph over the most adverse upbringings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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