| 单词 | perpendicular pronoun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasperpendicular pronoun perpendicular pronoun n. [with allusion to the appearance of the capital letter ‘I’ on the printed page] slang (originally U.S.) the personal pronoun ‘I’, typically with implication of egotism on the part of a person speaking or writing in the first person. ΚΠ 1886 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Sept. 292 As I reread these pages of rambling recollections, wherein the perpendicular pronoun erects itself with most unconscionable frequency..I confess to a great doubt: a dramatist ought to be able at least to conceal his own egotism. 1942 V. Starrett Bookman's Holiday 175 There is no reticence in Reid's pages. The perpendicular pronoun is always in bristling evidence. 2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 1 The master of the perpendicular pronoun, who will generously add to any anecdote some rather more interesting observations of his own. < as lemmas |
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