释义 |
pompey, v.|ˈpɒmpɪ| [Extended form of pomp v.2; a word of Dickens.] trans. To pamper.
1860Dickens Gt. Expect. vii, When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe [Gargery] called ‘Pompeyed’, or (as I render it) pampered. 1885Daily News 13 Oct. 4/8 Now boys are ‘pompeyed’, in a Pumblechookian sense, to a degree which makes men envious. 1892Sat. Rev. 20 Aug. 213/2 This kind of notoriety cannot but ‘pompey’ boys. |