| 单词 | give oneself airs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give oneself airs a. to give oneself airs: to assume an unnatural or affected manner, esp. an unjustified air of superiority. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 bride?1533 affect1600 mimp1673 to give oneself airs1701 fal-lal1818 pose1840 posturize1850 attitudinize1864 primp1875 posture1877 lardy-dardy1887 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 la-di-da1901 profile1970 the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)] to make it goodlyc1325 usurpc1400 to take state upon one1597 to come over ——1600 to gentilize it1607 to state it1625 to give oneself airs1701 to put on airs1715 to mount (also ride) the high horse1782 to put on (the) dog1865 to get (also have) notions1866 to put on side1870 to have a roll on1881 to put (or pile) on lugs1889 side1890 to put on the Ritz1921 1701 T. Baker Humour of Age ii. 29 As I was..giving myself great Airs behind the Scenes. 1735 H. Fielding Old Man taught Wisdom 17 I must always give myself Airs to a Man I like. 1789 R. Burns Let. 4 Jan. (1985) I. 351 I give myself no airs on this, for it was mere selfishness on my part. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 6 A stuck-up fellow, who gave himself airs. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. iv. 60 Mrs. Frith used to talk about ‘people as gave theirselves airs which they had no business to of done.’ 1946 C. Bush Case Second Chance vii. 105 It was said she gave herself airs, and it was also hinted that she was no better—as they say—than she might be. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) v. 62 Some people like to give themselves airs. to give oneself airs c. With dative of reflexive pronoun in various uses: To impose on oneself (trouble); to cause oneself to have (a possession, privilege, etc.); to assume, pretend to. †to give oneself wonder: to be astonished. to give oneself airs: to assume a bearing offensively or ludicrously indicative of belief in one's own superiority. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > wonder, be astonished [phrase] to think wonder971 I have selcoutha1250 marvela1393 to have wondera1400 to have marvela1500 to give oneself wonderc1500 bewondereda1586 to think it wondera1586 estrange1658 to think (it) much1669 flabberdegasky1822 the mind boggles1899 c1500 Melusine (1895) xxx. 223 I gyue me grete wonder what folke they may be. 1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 5 Looking gravely, to give myself Authority [etc.]. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 44 That easily discovers the Airs they give themselves. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 22 Without giving myself any further Trouble. 1735 H. Fielding Old Man taught Wisdom 17 I must always give myself Airs to a Man I like. 1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. iv. 146 She went to his shop, riding on an ass, to give herself consequence, and said [etc.]. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 13 She gave herself no airs to procure it. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 126 We ought not to give ourselves airs. 1886 Law Times 82 77/2 A tribunal cannot give itself jurisdiction by erroneous findings of fact. < as lemmas |
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