单词 | hard-uppishness |
释义 | > as lemmasˌhard-ˈuppishness ˌhard-ˈuppishness n. (also hard-upishness) colloquial (now rare) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > lack of money pence-lackc1400 a short purse1548 disability1624 low tide1699 embarrassment1727 impecuniosity1818 soldier's thigh1841 pennilessness1852 hard-uppishness1859 hard-upness1869 ooflessness1889 1859 D. G. Rossetti Let. 23 June (1965) I. 353 As for hardupishness..I have been literally penniless for two days. 1870 G. A. Sala Dickens 45 The occasional ‘harduppishness’ of a young man striving to attain a position. 1908 E. Phillpotts Human Boy Again xii, 298 It was the well-known hard-upishness of Thwaites that made him think a pound would do. 1923 Musical Times 64 179/1 If hard-uppishness is a disability, it is one from which many admirable composers and performers suffer no less than critics. < as lemmas |
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