| 单词 | to put on the gyver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put on the gyver Affectation of speech or behaviour, esp. in to put on the gyver. Also as adj.: smart, fashionable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] in (also into) request?1574 bonfacion1584 fashional?1607 of request1613 fashionablea1627 à la mode1642 all the mode1651 modish1661 in mode1664 timeish1676 of vogue1678 voguea1695 mody1701 alamodic1753 much the mode1767 tonish1778 go1784 stylish1800 bang-up1810 tippy1810 varmint1823 up to the knocker1844 gyvera1866 OK1869 fly1879 swagger1879 doggy1885 faddy1885 fantoosh1920 voguish1927 voguey1928 à la page1930 go1937 hard1938 hip1939 down1952 swinging1958 a-go-go1960 way-in1960 yé-yé1960 trendy1962 with-it1962 go-go1963 happening1965 mod1965 funky1967 together1968 fash1977 cred1987 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] affectation1548 affection1570 phantastry1656 stilt1735 fal-lal1775 coxcombality1785 meemaw1790 posture-making1797 attitudinarianism1803 attitudinizing1812 piminy1819 stiltishness1824 niminy-piminyism1840 gyvera1866 notion1866 attitudinization1871 effectism1871 jam1882 chichi1908 poncing1969 pseudery1972 a1866 Vance Chickaleary Cove (Farmer & Henley) The stock around my squeeze of a guiver colour see. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 411/2 Guiver (theatrical), flattery, artfulness. 1897 D. McK. Wright Station Ballads (1945) 45 He'd put on ‘gyver’ enough to last a full-bred actor a week. 1899 W. T. Goodge Hits! Skits! & Jingles! 18 And I ain't got the style and the guiver Of them bank clerks and students and sich. 1914 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 May 'E 'ad a bit of guiver wif the secrety. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 142 I'm not takin' any of that sort of ‘gyver’, you know. 1918 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 5 July 253/1 The ‘givor’ that kid puts on, you would think he was a captain at least. 1928 J. Devanny Dawn Beloved xviii. 179 Mrs. Rodda thinks herself too good for anybody else... To hear her and Mrs. Devoy talk! The guyver they put on! 1938 Observer 25 Sept. 9/2 Guyver: Make-believe, still used in Anglo-Jewish slang. It is Hebrew for pride, but has now come to mean pretence and is synonymous with..swank. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda xxxii. 272 Well, what's all this guyver about the going being tough? 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 83 Givo or gyvo, an adjective which describes any sartorial eccentricity. A ‘tiddley-suit’ made by a shore-going tailor which has wider bell~bottoms than are permitted by the Service regulations. 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now iii. vii. 207 I wouldn't want you to get stuck-up and start putting on the gyver and forgetting your own. < as lemmas |
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