单词 | mobbish |
释义 | mobbishadj. Resembling or having the characteristics of a mob; disorderly, tumultuous; crowded. Also (usually depreciative): characteristic of or appealing to the common people. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > vulgar knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 porterlike1568 mechanical1584 souterly1589 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 porterly1603 tavernly1612 plebeian1615 vulgar1643 mobbish1695 pothouse1780 commonish1792 common1804 vulgarian1833 vulgarish1860 unselect1867 off-colour1875 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > riotous tempestousc1374 tempestuous1447 uproarish1550 tumultuous1576 routious1602 tumultuary1650 ramp1678 mobbish1695 royet1737 riotous1775 rumbustiousa1777 rumbustical1779 rampageous1800 rioty1819 rampacious1836 tempestive1848 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective] carlisha1240 lewdc1380 carlc1450 villain1483 ruffian1528 shake-ragged1550 porterlike1568 popular1583 ungracious1584 ordinarya1586 tapsterly1589 mechanic1598 round-headed1598 base-like1600 strummell-patch1600 porterly1603 scrubbing1603 vernaculous1607 plebeian1615 reptile1653 proletarian1663 mobbish1695 low1725 terraefilial1745 low-lifed1747 Whitechapel1785 lowlife1794 boweryish1846 gutter1849 bowery1852 lowish1886 swab1914 lumpen1944 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds > tending to mobbish1695 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [adjective] > belonging to the rabble > characteristic of or resembling routish1642 mobbish1695 1695 Whether Parl. be dissolved by Death of Princess of Orange 4 They turn more Mobbish than a Dover Court. 1699 J. Collier Second Def. Short View Eng. Stage 398 The Surveyor gives the Text a mobbish Turn, and foists in some of his own ill Language. 1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. Pref. Disc. p. cv His Mobish fallacious way of arguing. 1732 Earl of Oxford in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS Comm.) 156 I never was in so mobbish a place, we could scarce walk the streets for the numbers of people that flocked about us. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 332 In many counties, where the people were divided, mobbish combats and skirmishes ensued. 1793 A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 58 As if it was possible, after rousing, by inflammatory publications, the mobbish spirit, that you could draw the line of moderation. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 190 The group..were in ordinary Lowland dresses..which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance. View more context for this quotation 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 512 The mobbish love of destruction. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vii. 355 Be judicial, arithmetical, in passing sentence on it [sc. Voltaire's fraud]; not shrieky, mobbish, and flying off into the Infinite! 1920 Q. Rev. July 166 This mobbish or, as it may be termed, ‘synnomic’ character of primitive mentality is well known. 1975 K. Miller Cockburn's Millennium 252 This was the mobbish county which, six years before, had threatened to burke Sir Walter. 1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 44/3 Anywhere else in the world, he'd probably be a star too. Fighting off mobbish autograph hunters. 1997 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 28/8 The young women had been ritually humiliated simply to satisfy a mobbish appetite for cheap but exciting competition. Derivatives ˈmobbishly adv. now rare ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > riotously riotously?1435 tempestuously1447 riotibly1509 royetously1536 tumultuously1548 disorderly1564 disorderously1579 turbulently1602 tumultuarily1609 routously1615 uproarishly1647 unguidedly1660 mobbishly1716 a-riot1834 rumbustiously1840 riotingly1846 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 250 The tumultuous Citizens of Thessalonica..having mobbishly murder'd one of the Emperor's Lieutenants. 1766 C. Chauncy Disc. ‘Good News’ 26 Some mobishly disposed persons. 1825 Lancet 13 Aug. 179/2 This room..was nearly filled by Pupils and Surgeons..the latter standing on what may be termed the stage, and obstructing and mobbishly closing up its whole area. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1695 |
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