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‖ sottisier|sɔtizje| [Fr.] A collection of sottises; esp. a list of written stupidities. Also transf. and fig.
1929E. Pound Let. 1 Feb. (1971) 224 The simplest and briefest form of attack is by a sottisier... Make your sottisier from Poetry and the main literary reviews, Sunday supplements, etc. 1944Horizon Sept. 187 Nor is it [sc. Finnegans Wake] a mere sottisier. 1959Observer 30 Aug. 13/7 A cast-iron certainty for the September Sottisier Stakes. 1969J. Gross Rise & Fall of Man of Letters ix. 238 It would be easy to compile a fair-sized sottisier of such remarks, but not very amusing. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 345/5 The sloppy editing and the sottisier of an index, with its general confusion of names, styles, titles and sexes. 1978Times 22 Mar. 11/8 Ginger Rogers..under-rehearsed commentary is a sottisier of all the awful things Americans are supposed to say. |