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单词 monty pythonesque
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Monty Pythonesqueadj.

Brit. /ˌmɒntɪ ˌpʌɪθəˈnɛsk/, U.S. /ˌmɑn(t)i ˌpaɪθəˈnɛsk/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Monty Python's Flying Circus , -esque suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Monty Python's Flying Circus, British television programme (see Pythonesque adj.) + -esque suffix.
Relating to or reminiscent of Monty Python's Flying Circus; = Pythonesque adj.
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1971 Opera Aug. 754 The reappearance of the omnipresent Idiot is rather Monty Pythonesque.
1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 19 Apr. Included are the Monty Pythonesque ‘Ripping Yarns’, including one about a boy ‘so unutterably boring that his parents run away from home’.
1984 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. c1/24 The shop's 4,000 titles include out of print plays by Shaw and off-the-wall Monty Pythonesque collections.
1994 Independent on Sunday 27 Mar. 17/1 The Home Secretary accused the Euro-phobes of indulging in ‘Monty Pythonesque exchanges’ in the Commons.
2019 Ottawa Citizen 18 Dec. a9/5 The secrecy reached Monty Pythonesque proportions when the city covered up the fact that a sewer pipe had been punctured well before the LRT opened.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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