英语词汇“phlizz”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

phlizz

释义

phlizz|flɪz|
[Fanciful.]
In Lewis Carroll's book Sylvie and Bruno, a fruit or flower that has no real substance; hence, allusively, anything without meaning or value, a mere name.
1889‘L. Carroll’ Sylvie & Bruno vi. 75 Bruno..picked a fruit... ‘It hasn't got no taste at all!’ he complained. ‘It was a Phlizz,’ Sylvie gravely replied.Ibid. xx. 294 They will be sorry when they find them [sc. flowers] gone!.. The nosegay was only a Phlizz.1899Johnson Club Papers 188 We crown the musicians with flowers that, like poor Bruno's in the fairy tale, are but a phlizz.1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. ix. 187 What was his image of her but a phlizz, but a fraud?Ibid. xii. 218 Was Foggartism a phlizz?1931― Maid in Waiting iv. 20 The thing's a phlizz. Just a low type of Homo Sapiens.

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