单词 | bread-and-butterishness |
释义 | > as lemmasbread-and-butterishness ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > quality of childhoodlOE childheada1325 childishness1526 childlikeness1744 bread-and-butterishness1843 childlinessa1846 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 80 They..emerge..into the full and perfect imago of little..gentlemen, and little ladies, without any of those intermediate conditions of laddism, hobble-de-hoyism, or bread-and-butterishness. 1878 Canad. Spectator 2 Feb. 44/1 Brought up in a ‘seminary for young ladies’, she seems never to have shaken off the bread-and-butterishness. 1903 Defiance (Ohio) Evening Express 30 Nov. The independent, strident-voiced person..is being replaced by what we may call the old-fashioned girl, freed, however, from the silliness and affectation and bread-and-butterishness of her predecessor. < as lemmas |
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