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单词 pompey
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.
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