网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 waggish
释义 waggish
adjective
 old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈwæɡ.ɪʃ/ us /ˈwæɡ.ɪʃ/
(of a person) funny in a clever way : (人)幽默的,诙谐的
The piece, as one waggish writer put it, "begins like Bach and ends like Offenbach."这首曲子,正如一位诙谐的作者所言,“像巴赫一样开始,像奥芬巴赫一样结束”。
using or expressing humour in a clever way: 诙谐的
The Beatles also appeared in two wildly successful and waggish films directed by Richard Lester.披头士乐队还出现在理查德·莱斯特执导的两部极为成功的诙谐电影中。
Behind the author's sometimes waggish prose is considerable scholarship.在作者时而诙谐的文字背后是相当多的学术研究。
See
wag
Milo is no longer the waggish bohemian he was in his youth.
This character is witty, waggish, provoking and insightful.
He uses waggish humor to great effect.
His eyes lacked their usual waggish glint.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humour & humorous
amusingly
bitingly
blackly
bone dryidiom
bring
drily
gag
geddit?
GSOH
jocose
lightly
mordancy
non-serious
pawky
photobomb
photobombing
rib
standing joke
wag
wisecrack

Examples of waggish


waggish
Therefore, waggish claims of unilateral declaration of independence for towns and villages would not survive cursory inspection.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is a line from a waggish folk song.
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.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/22 22:30:20