单词 | pansified |
释义 | pansifiedadj. colloquial. Excessively stylized or adorned; affected; effeminate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > excessively ornamented garish1587 fantasticc1616 scrolloping1923 pansified1929 1929 Brooklyn Daily Times 10 Mar. 2/8 The Federal Government has contracted for its first State Bastille... It will be known as ‘The Federal House of Detention’, but despite the pansified title it will have bars not less lasting than Dannermora. 1941 C. King Diary 17 July in With Malice toward None (1970) 135 These birds from Portland Place..think anything said with feeling is rather vulgar, so usually give out a very pansified BBC message. 1959 W. D. Pereira North Flight iv. 56 You don't know this place. Like a pansified rabbit warren. Architect designed. 1976 Listener 27 May 679/1 Being not only a Londoner, but a central Londoner,..I can breakfast and dine in my pansified quarters in the heart of the soft South, having spent most of the intervening time in the gritty, bracing, humorous, individualistic North. 2005 Galway City Tribune 25 Mar. 8/1 The train is still far more comfortable of course—though they seem to be doing their best to lose even this advantage, now only serving beer in pansified longneck bottles at €4.20 apiece. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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