| 释义 |
ˈnobbiness
[f. nobby a. + -ness.]
Smartness; affected elegance.
1909N.Y. Even. Post 7 Aug. 2 He unwittingly errs..on the side either of a certain scrubbiness or of an even more unfortunate ‘nobbiness’. 1935Amer. Speech X. 10/1 Around 1900 when the present-day elderly good-people were criminal Dapper Dans, their lingo was the last word in linguistic nobbiness. |