单词 | bourgeois-shocking |
释义 | > as lemmasbourgeois-shocking C4. Objective with verbal and agent nouns and participles, as bourgeois-shocking n. and adj., bourgeois-shocker (cf. to shock the bourgeois at Phrases). ΚΠ 1922 Millgate Monthly June 529/2 This process of letting down gently is far more effective than the pleasant pastime of bourgeois-shocking. 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. ii. 48 This tame and cowardly gang of bourgeois-shockers. 1964 Winnipeg Free Press 21 Nov. (Mod. Living & Leisure section) 8/2 Most of the poems are not bourgeois-shocking but genuinely surprising and fresh. 2004 B. Ching in R. Gray & O. Robinson Compan. Lit. & Culture Amer. South xii. 214 A compelling combination of the sangfroid of the Carter Family and the bourgeois-shocking antics of Jimmie Rodgers and his descendants. < as lemmas |
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