单词 | flaunting |
释义 | flauntingadj. That flaunts. 1. Waving gaily or proudly like a plume or a banner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] rankOE peacockly?a1425 ruffling1531 garish1545 peacockish1551 peacock-like1576 ostentatious1590 fastuous?1591 flaring1593 flantitanting1596 ostentive1599 ostentative1601 showful1607 flourishable1614 flourishing1616 flaunting1624 ostentous1624 ostentatory1638 swasha1640 fanfaron1670 paradeful1748 ostensible1782 epideictic1790 fandangous1797 flashy1801 affiché1818 show-off1818 splashing1820 flaunty1825 splash-and-dash1830 pretentious1832 flash1836 splashy1836 pretenceful1841 swanky1842 peacocky1844 fantysheeny1847 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 pretensivea1868 duchessy1870 swagger1879 lavish1882 splurging1884 show-offy1890 razzmatazz1900 show-offish1903 whoop-de-do1904 Ritz1908 split-arse1917 swanking1918 ritzy1919 fantoosh1920 knock-me-down1922 showboating1936 showboat1939 hellzapoppin'1945 zazzy1961 glitzy1966 sploshy1966 zhuzhy1968 noncy1989 bling1999 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > waving in the wind windyc1450 streaming1567 flying1607 wavinga1616 flaunting1624 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. i. sig. Dv For all your flaunting Feathers. 1624 R. Davenport City Night-cap iii. i My Taylor bringing home My last new gown, having made the sleeves too flanting. 1637 J. Milton Comus 19 A bank With ivie-canopied, and interwove With flaunting hony-suckle. 1681 Moores Baffled 24 In the Evening the Earl commanded a Squadron of Horse to fetch off the flanting Standard. 1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 97 Mantled with the flaunting grape vine. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 394 Oh then I carried..casque with flaunting feather. 2. Making an obtrusive display; showy, gaudy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] fine1526 garish1545 flaunting1567 gawish1567 taffety1597 showful1607 flaming1609 flaring1610 over-brave1620 showish1675 rantingc1685 gaudy1709 showy1712 tinselled1738 kicky1790 flaunty1796 flashy1801 slangish1813 florid1815 tigerish1831 flash1836 flary1841 loud1850 flashy-looking1852 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 flagrant1858 jingo1859 cheesy1863 orchidaceous1864 flamboyant1879 vociferous1883 voyant1906 grandstanding1908 floozy1911 ritzy1919 like a (or the) dog's dinner1927 plush horse1936 kitsch1953 zazzy1961 pizzazz1969 1567 G. Turberville To Friend that refused Him in Epit., Epigr. (1870) 203 Yeeld me thy flanting hood, shake off those belles of thine. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 20/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I A flaunting ostentation of a roysting kynde of rhetorike. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 29 June (1970) I. 187 He told me in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville hath caused his [preamble] to be done. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 28 Oct. 233 As flaunting as Mrs. Gingham the Deputy's Wife. 1786 R. Burns Poems 171 The flaunting flow'rs our Gardens yield. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. iii. 50 A flaunting carpet, green, red, and yellow, covered the floor. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxix. 258 [A] dingy public-house..completely thrown into obscurity by two flaunting gin-shops at the corner. 1868 M. E. Braddon Dead-Sea Fruit I. xii. 254 Their serio-comic woes about recalcitrant butlers and flaunting housemaids. 1885 Manch. Evening News 10 Sept. 2/2 A strong effort was made to remove flaunting vice from the streets. Derivatives ˈflauntingly adv. in a flaunting manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adverb] flauntingly1584 garishly1593 showfully1613 flashily1736 showily1755 gaudily1764 violently1771 flauntily1830 loudly1849 snazzily1980 glitzily1982 1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. E ij For I must to the wedding Both vauntingly and flauntingly, although I had no bidding. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 21 So may your tongue still flauntingly proceede. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. viii. 71 The more flauntingly to gallantrize it. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xviii. 157 Across the road..stood..a flauntingly dressed woman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmasˈflaunting ˈflaunting n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > making a display strutting1399 pluming1486 swashing1556 flantado1582 showing forth1615 jetting1654 parading1686 flaunting1729 showing off1822 peacocking1837 swanking1900 1729 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 230 I told him of your flauntings. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 59 ‘There'll be fine flaunting when she's a married woman and her own mistress.’ < as lemmas |
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