| 单词 | tall talk |
| 释义 | > as lemmastall talk tall talk, speaking in a boastful or exaggerated style; see also big talk n. at big adj. and adv. Compounds 2, small talk n.extracted from talkn.tall talk b. Grandiloquent, magniloquent; high-flown; esp. in tall talk (talk n. 6). colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > of language windya1382 wide1574 fustian1592 high-flown1632 tall1670 screamy1882 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > lofty or grandiloquent magnificenta1460 statelya1525 magnifical1533 tragical1533 lofty1565 tragic1566 sublime1586 over-high1587 magnific1589 heroic1590 buskina1593 grandiloquous1593 full-mouthed1594 high-pitched1594 buskined1595 full-mouth1595 high-borne1596 altisonant1612 Roman1619 high-sounding1624 transcendent1631 magniloquent1640 loud1651 altiloquent1656 grandiloquent1656 largiloquent1656 altisonous1661 tall1670 elevate1673 grandisonous1674 sounding1683 exalted1684 grandisonant1684 grandific1727 magniloquous1727 orotund1799 superb1825 spread eagle1839 grandiose1840 magnisonanta1843 togated1868 elevated1875 mandarin1959 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 39 Others..whose parts stand not so much towards tall Words and lofty Notions, but consist in..besprinkling all their Sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin. 1864 Spectator No. 1884. 911 The somewhat tall title of ‘Analysis and Synthesis in Painting’. 1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 518 What the Yankees call ‘tall talk’. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 55 Then succeeded the minister herself, whose prayer was ‘taller’ than the young girl's. 1890 Spectator 3 May 628/1 The diction is as impetuous as Niagara, as ‘tall’ as the Eiffel Tower. < as lemmas |
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