单词 | mittyish |
释义 | Mittyishadj. Resembling or reminiscent of Walter Mitty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [adjective] dreaminga1500 castle-building1740 daydreaming1814 daydreamyc1816 wool-gathering1850 head-in-air1880 Walter Mittyish1954 Mittyish1956 Mittyesque1958 Mitty-like1961 1956 Amer. Econ. Rev. 46 986 Part of this is, perhaps, a somewhat Mitty-ish dream of funneling micro and macro principle..into the eager and receptive minds of freshmen. 1980 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 86 431 Klapp's Mittyish-Prufrockian man is continually rattled by the rustling of candy wrappers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1956 |
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