| 单词 | brickishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈbrickishness 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. < as lemmas |
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