| 单词 |
fancy-pants |
| 释义 |
fancy-pants, a. and n. colloq.
Brit. |ˈfansi ˌpants|, U.S. |ˈfænsi ˌpæn(t)s|
[‹ fancy adj. + pants n.]
A. adj. Fancy, fine, ornamental. Now usually: overly fancy; posh; snobbish, pretentious.
1870Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald (Electronic text) 29 Oct. 3/6 (advt.) Just opened! Still another lot of imported diagonal and and basket coatings and fancy-pants cassimers. 1939Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 19 Nov. 8/5 Bellamy borrowed the money to come west and borrowed some more to rent himself a Beverly Hills mansion complete with swimming pool and fancy-pants butler. 1964M. Davis Watersiders 124 Blooming disgraceful. Some of these fancy-pants young stevedore are about as useful as tits on a bull. 2004Heeb Winter 24/3 Compared to all the highfalutin, independently owned, fancy-pants pharmacies in Berkeley, Walgreen's ends up being pretty cheap.
B. n. A dandy; a snob; a fastidious or pretentious person. Freq. as a form of address.
1930Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 8/3 ‘Dear Fancy Pants’ writes someone from down in Texas. 1934P. Peters & G. Sklar Stevedore 31 All right, fancy pants. 1967‘M. Hunter’ Cambridgeshire Disaster viii. 52 Some puffed-up fancy pants..said something which made the barmaid laugh. 2004Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 23 Dec. 20 a, If you're not in the mood for being a fancypants and more in the mood to monkey around, the El Paso Zoo can occupy a few hours of your day. |
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