英语词汇“flatterer”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

flatterer

释义

flatterer|ˈflætərə(r)|
[f. flatter v.¹ + -er¹.]
1. One who flatters, in various senses of the vb.; esp. one who employs false praise to obtain favour or otherwise serve his own purposes.
a1340Hampole Psalter xiv. 4 Flaterers & bakbiters ere fere fra þis life.1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. iii. 51 Ye that haue ben flaterours and traitours to youre frendes.1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 88, I had lever..be reproued..of euery persone, than to be praysed of a flaterer.a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 443 A Flatterer is a Dog, that fawns when he bites.1727Gay Fables i. i. 77 For beasts of prey, a servile train, Have been the flatt'rers of my reign.1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxviii, ‘I am afraid Sir Mulberry is a flatterer, my lord’, said Mrs. Wititterly.1881Rita My Lady Coquette xx, You are a sad flatterer, Rose.
2. Comb., as flatterer-like adj.
1630Drayton Moses i. 118 Three lab'ring months them flatterer-like beguiled.

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