单词 | self-admirer |
释义 | self-admirern. A person who admires himself or herself, esp. excessively; a conceited or vain person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [noun] > vain person puppy?1544 self-lover1555 coxcomb1567 feather-cock1612 self-admirer1633 self-idolater1643 cockcomb1684 peachick1693 worship-willer1721 narcissus1767 narcissist1917 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 10) 762 Proud and ambitious selfe-admirers, thinke themselves fitter to rule than obey. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 204 A contrary state and temper of the heart in self-admiration secludes such self-admirers. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxiii. 429 A Man need not be..a Self-admirer, and always at the Glass. 1882 S. Pearson Week-day Living x. 107 Many young men who dawdle about drawing-rooms and dangle after their young lady friends are only self-admirers. 1963 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 4 Oct. (Green section) 1/2 Some self-admirer can go down the street with expanded chest saying ‘what a big boy am I’. 2017 Wired (Nexis) Jan. 86 A vapid, hollow, despicable, sordid, corrupt, monumentally boneheaded self-admirer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633 |
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