单词 | wasm |
释义 | wasm, n.|ˈwɒz(ə)m| [f. ism quasi-n., with jocular substitution of was for is: see be v.] An ‘ism’ that has gone out of fashion; an obsolete or obsolescent belief, theory, or ideology.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment i. v. 54 It was a time, as somebody put it after the conclusion of the Nazi-Communist alliance, when all ‘isms’ had become ‘wasms’. Europe had become a jungle. 1958Sunday Bull. (Philadelphia) 2 Feb. 17/3 Some of the ‘isms’ of today..are the ‘wasms’ of tomorrow. 1983D. Edgar Maydays iii. iv. 56/1, I think that socialism, as a reputable, intellectual concept, is quite dead. A ‘wasm’ in our times. |

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