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单词 coxcomb
释义

coxcomb

/ˈkɒkskəʊm /
noun
1 archaic A vain and conceited man; a dandy.His manner assures her ‘that he was exactly the coxcomb she had heard him described to be.’...
  • Wouldn't that be egg all over the face of the dizzy-eyed coxcomb of a Prime Minister.
  • As an afterthought, the red-headed girl suddenly added, ‘Good gracious, that Adam Weatherly is such a coxcomb.’
2 variant spelling of cockscomb (sense 2).

Derivatives

coxcombry

/ˈkɒkskəmri/ noun (plural coxcombries)sense 1. ...
  • It is this coxcombry which leads him so often into allegory and objectless personification.
  • This insolent condescension - this coxcombry of admiration - more galling than the arrogance of contempt!
  • He campily portrayed the obsessed doctor with all the venom and vice and coxcombry he could muster.

Origin

Mid 16th century (denoting a simpleton): variant of cockscomb, in the sense 'jester's cap' (resembling a cockscomb), hence 'a jester, a fool'.

Rhymes

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