| 单词 | character-monger |
| 释义 | > as lemmascharacter-monger character-monger n. ΚΠ 1680 Lex Talionis (single sheet) (verso) Poor Robin the Devils Secretary, is a little, silly, idle, impertinent lying, poor hungry Fellow; a miserable Ballad-maker and Character-Monger. 1740 Marforio tr. Hist. View of Polit. Writers in Great-Britain 28 An ingenious Character-Monger will, when the literal Sense will not do, give it an Allegorical Term. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Madame D'Arblay in Eclectic Mag. Apr. 457/1 His dear little Burney, his little character-monger. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Weekend Books section) 26 Hibernian charactermongers, adepts in that mildly condescending brogue-and-blarney tradition stretching from Maria Edgeworth to William Trevor and beyond. < as lemmas |
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