词汇 | blimpish |
释义 | blimpish adjective UKinformaluk /ˈblɪm.pɪʃ/ us /ˈblɪm.pɪʃ/ Someone, especially an old man, who is blimpish has old-fashioned military principles and is too proud of his country: (尤指老人)高傲自大而又顽固守旧的;爱国情操过于溢于言表的 a blimpish old colonel一个顽固守旧的老上校 See also Colonel BlimpUKold-fashioned Old or old-fashioned age-old ageing ancient antediluvian anti-progressive fossilize fossilized frumpy fustily have had its/your dayidiom outdate outdated outdatedly outmoded outworn unmodernized unmodish unprogressive unreconstructed unsmart Examples of blimpishblimpish Unfortunately, he delivered it with his customary blimpish aggression, with the result that the sound sense of it was lost. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Squire is now considered to be on the blimpish wing of the reaction to modernist work. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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