单词 | anti-wit |
释义 | anti-witn. Now rare. A person who tries vainly to be witty. ΚΠ a1687 Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. 98 Our brave Anti-wits and great Ones. 1709 W. Wycherley Let. 26 May in Posthumous Wks. (1729) II. 41 The Coffee-house Wits, or rather Anti-wits, the Criticks, prove their Judgments by approving your Wit. 1995 Philol. Q. 74 265 Pope..answers the anti-Wits with arguments from his own Dunces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.a1687 |
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