英语词汇“greenery-yallery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

greenery-yallery

/ˌɡriːnərɪˈjaləri

adjective informal

1Green and yellow: the greenery-yallery dogwood...

The pale, faintly mauve, pink satin ground contrasts with the ‘greenery-yallery’ lilies.

1.1Of or in the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement (used to convey the idea of affectation): a greenery-yallery fin-de-siècle lyricism...

As these letters amply show, to think of Wilde as a greenery-yallery, light weight, green-carnationist teller of fairy-tales, and tell-taler of Society comedies, is to be naive.

Late 19th century: from green + yaller (variant of yellow), with reduplication of the suffix -y¹.

单词	greenery-yallery
释义	greenery-yallery /ˌɡriːnərɪˈjaləri / adjective informal 1Green and yellow: the greenery-yallery dogwood... The pale, faintly mauve, pink satin ground contrasts with the ‘greenery-yallery’ lilies. 1.1Of or in the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement (used to convey the idea of affectation): a greenery-yallery fin-de-siècle lyricism... As these letters amply show, to think of Wilde as a greenery-yallery, light weight, green-carnationist teller of fairy-tales, and tell-taler of Society comedies, is to be naive. Origin Late 19th century: from green + yaller (variant of yellow), with reduplication of the suffix -y¹.
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