| 释义 |
mobbish, a.|ˈmɒbɪʃ|
Also 8 mobish.
[f. mob n.1 + -ish.]
Resembling or characteristic of a mob; † given to mobbing (obs.), disorderly, tumultuous. Also, † characteristic of, or appealing to ‘the mob’ or lower classes; vulgar, clap-trap.
1695Whether Parlt. be dissolved by Death of Princess of Orange 4 They turn more Mobbish than a Dover Court. 1699Collier 2nd Def. Immor. Stage 398 The Surveyor gives the Text a mobbish Turn, and foists in some of his own ill Language. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 168 His mobbish fallacious way of arguing. 1732Earl of Oxford in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 156, I never was in so mobbish a place, we could scarce walk the streets for the numbers of people that flocked about us. 1793A. Young Example of France (ed. 3) 58 As if it was possible, after rousing, by inflammatory publications, the mobbish spirit, that you could draw the line of moderation. 1814Scott Wav. xxxv, The group..were in ordinary Lowland dresses..which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 512 The mobbish love of destruction. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. vii. IV. 355 Be judicial, arithmetical, in passing sentence on it [sc. Voltaire's fraud]; not shrieky, mobbish, and flying off into the Infinite! 1920Q. Rev. July 166 This mobbish or, as it may be termed, ‘synnomic’ character of primitive mentality is well known.
Hence ˈmobbishly adv.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 250 The tumultuous Citizens of Thessalonica..having mobbishly murder'd one of the Emperor's Lieutenants. 1767Chauncy Disc. 24 July 26 Some mobishly disposed persons. |
