单词 | snivelization |
释义 | snivelizationn. Civilization considered derisively as a cause of anxiety or plaintiveness.In quot. c1938 with direct reference to quot. 1849. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > [noun] police1530 civility1531 civilization1760 snivelization1849 civilizedness1878 kultur1914 1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 131 Ye wouldn't have been to sea here, leadin' this dog's life, if you hadn't been snivelized... Snivelization has been the ruin on ye. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Satires & Burlesques (1967) 169 He was working this character into an elaborate satire on civilization to be called ‘Affeland (Snivelization)’. c1938 L. Mumford Rep. Honolulu in City Devel. (1946) x. 106 The restrictions and burdens imposed by what one of Herman Melville's characters derisively called ‘snivelization’. Derivatives ˈsnivelize v. (transitive) to reduce (someone) to a state of whimpering civilization.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > make civilized [verb (transitive)] civil1584 civilize1595 reclaim1603 unbeast1611 dissavage1631 unbarbarize1648 unbrute1670 disbarbarize1803 unbrutify1812 debarbarize1823 snivelize1849 unbrutalize1852 1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 131 Ye wouldn't have been to sea here, leadin' this dog's life, if you hadn't been snivelized. ˈsnivelized adj. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > [adjective] > civilized civil1531 civilized1611 unbrutizeda1711 unbarbarized1719 snivelized1849 1849 H. Melville Redburn xxi. 130 Snivelized chaps only learns the way to take on 'bout life, and snivel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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