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单词 bread-and-butterishness
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bread-and-butterishness
bread-and-butterishness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being girlish (or occasionally boyish); naivety; lack of sophistication. Cf. sense bread and butter adj. 1.
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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.
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