| 释义 |
toploftical, a. humorous colloq.|ˌtɒpˈlɒftɪkəl, -ɔː-|
[app. f. top loft, topmost gallery or story + -ical, after words like magnifical, tyrannical, etc.]
High-flown, ‘high and mighty’, ‘highfalutin’, ‘stuck-up’; also lit. lofty, elevated.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 104 Very toploftical to be sure. c1824Mrs. Carlyle Early Lett. (1889) 84 At the first she was quite intolerable with her fine-lady airs, and toploftical notions. 1884J. Burroughs Birds & Poets 74 Our toploftical brilliancy and cleverness. 1892Century Mag. Apr. 837/2 Whose turban handkerchief towered in a toploftical structure. 1894Harper's Mag. May 940/2 A few days of toploftical strutting around town. 1898Speaker 22 Jan. 100/2 Eaten up by pride and a toploftical sense of independence. |
