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单词 millionairish
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millionairishadj.

Brit. /ˌmɪljəˈnɛːrɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌmɪljəˈnɛrɪʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: millionaire n., -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < millionaire n. + -ish suffix1.
Of or characteristic of a millionaire.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money
pecuniousc1400
moneyed1457
well-moneyed1479
purse-full1600
pursy1602
flush1603
moneyful1604
moneyfied1620
millioned1747
millionary1816
millionaire1864
millionairish1874
coiny1891
multimillionaire1893
financialized1898
stakey1919
1874 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 342/1 I gather from the old boy himself that his eldest daughter..has made a splendid marriage—something millionairish, and baffling description.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Feb. 4/2 The schoolboy of to-day, with his millionairish ideas of pocket-money.
1932 P. Bloomfield Imaginary Worlds ii. 33 An eternal cycle of ‘whoopee’ at a sort of unenterprising country club of intolerable millionairish crudity.
1957 M. McCarthy in New Yorker 4 Dec. 33/3 A bluff, millionairish grey eyebrow.
1995 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 8 Nov. 1 b As if a state spending hundreds of millionsof dollars to make millionaires even more millionaire-ish is ‘noble’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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