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单词 bread-and-butterish
释义

bread-and-butterishadj.

Brit. /ˌbrɛd(ə)n(d)ˈbʌt(ə)rɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌbrɛdənˈbədərɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bread and butter n., -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < bread and butter n. + -ish suffix1.
1. Girlish, schoolgirlish; (sometimes more generally) childish; used depreciatively, with implication of naive or unsophisticated character. Cf. bread and butter adj. 1. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1840 Amer. Misc. 2 174/2 Who ever heard—except from a poet in his bread and butterish first utterings—of redolent smiles?
1893 Glasgow Herald 6 Apr. 4/4 Her sister..is a bread-and-butterish flirt.
1939 Stage 24 Aug. 10/3 Peggy Ashcroft's Cecily is most artfully and charmingly bread-and-butterish.
2. Mundane, humdrum, routine, ordinary; = bread and butter adj. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace
commona1382
ordinarc1400
plainc1430
famosec1449
famous1528
vulgar1580
ordinary1590
undistinguished1600
indistinguished1608
commonplace1616
unremarkable1628
irremarkable1635
bread and cheese1643
incurious1747
ordinary-looking1798
routine1826
indistinctive1846
common-seeming1857
bread-and-butterish1893
bread-and-buttery1893
timeworn1901
day-to-day1919
vanilla1972
standard1977
1893 Southend Standard 21 Sept. 8/4 Both materials [sc. chalk and lime] are..things of everyday acquaintance, with a decidedly bread-and-butterish interest.
1927 C. Aiken in Dial Dec. 513 By comparison with him [sc. Chekhov], Gissing seems prosy, bread-and-butterish. But he is good.
1985 P. Roazen Helene Deutsch (1992) 100 Part of Helene's lack of enthusiasm for the role her female colleagues would have thrust upon her was that the issue as they had drawn it up was too bread-and-butterish.
1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 2 Aug. 15 You can argue that Donald is too cautious, too bread-and-butterish when excitable folk looked for a hundred days of great revolutionary exhilaration.

Derivatives

bread-and-butterishness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being girlish (or occasionally boyish); naivety; lack of sophistication. Cf. sense bread and butter adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > child > [noun] > quality of
childhoodlOE
childheada1325
childishness1526
childlikeness1744
bread-and-butterishness1843
childlinessa1846
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 80 They..emerge..into the full and perfect imago of little..gentlemen, and little ladies, without any of those intermediate conditions of laddism, hobble-de-hoyism, or bread-and-butterishness.
1878 Canad. Spectator 2 Feb. 44/1 Brought up in a ‘seminary for young ladies’, she seems never to have shaken off the bread-and-butterishness.
1903 Defiance (Ohio) Evening Express 30 Nov. The independent, strident-voiced person..is being replaced by what we may call the old-fashioned girl, freed, however, from the silliness and affectation and bread-and-butterishness of her predecessor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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