单词 | monkeyism |
释义 | monkeyismn. Now rare (historical in later use). Monkeyish nature or character; behaviour resembling that of a monkey, esp. imitation. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > [noun] monkeyism1823 monkeyishness1824 sassiness1834 impishness1876 puckishness1900 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > silly imitation apishness1533 mockerya1616 apery1616 aping1687 monkeyism1823 monkeyishness1824 apism1843 codding1892 1823 R. Bloomfield Hazelwood-Hall ii. iii. 39 If it were not for the great names which this thing has the impudence to pronounce, I should sink beneath his monkeyism, and be ashamed of my origin. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 51 The chattering and capering monkeyism of the Parisian exquisite. 1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 207 The religious middle classes were soon repelled by the impieties of the [French] revolution..all men of sense by its monkeyism and its madness. 1877 D. M. Wallace Russia 413 The ‘monkeyism’ and ‘parrotism’ of those who indiscriminately adopted foreign manners and customs. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2818/2 Because most monkeys are alert, lively, and mischievous, any person who shows similar qualities..may be said to..be in a state of monkeyism. 2014 D. A. Jones Captive Stage Introd. 18 Performances by Frederick Douglass and ex-slave and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet disrupted normative racial hierarchies... The collective of white social reformers rejected their acts, which one critic derisively termed ‘monkeyism’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823 |
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