释义 |
Waughian, a.|ˈwɔːɪən| [f. the name Waugh + -ian.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the English novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) or his writing.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Dec. 783/3 Smyth strays into 1960 from some distant Waughian era. 1976Ibid. 1 Oct. 1229/4 Sniping on Firbankian and Waughian lines. 1977Time 19 Dec. 11/1 A country without government? The description immediately calls to mind a Waughian Third World kingdom. Also Waughism |ˈwɔːɪz(ə)m|, (a) the ideas or style characteristic of Waugh, or those portrayed in his novels; (b) a word or expression characteristic of Waugh.
1934[see Russellism]. 1976A. Powell Infants of Spring x. 167 The sessions he devoted to ragging (‘mocking’, to use a Waughism..) were likely to take certain routine forms. |