单词 | panicmonger |
释义 | > as lemmaspanicmonger panicmonger n. a person who endeavours to start a panic, esp. on a political, social, or financial issue; an alarmist. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing apprehension or alarm > [noun] > alarm > endeavour to bring about a panic > panic-monger panicmonger1845 1845 Times 22 Nov. 2/3 All the gloomy predictions of the (potato) panicmongers. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. 14 Sunderland succeeded in persuading James that Lewis XIV's warnings were those of the ‘panic-monger’. 1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame viii. 164 Sylvia was striking at familiar panicmongers, which many of her readers would subsequently identify and condemn. < as lemmas |
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