coxcomb
英 ['kɒkskəʊm]
美
- n. 花花公子；鸡冠花
英英释义
- 1. a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
- 2. a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
- 3. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
双语例句
- 1. Jones was not so vain and senseless a coxcomb as to expect.
- 琼斯并不是那么一个不自量,没头没脑的浪荡哥儿.
来自辞典例句
- 2. He is a plausible coxcomb.
- 他是个巧言令色的花花公子.
来自辞典例句
- 3. He is a coxcomb.
- 他是一个纨绔子弟.
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英文词源
- coxcomb (n.)
- 1570s, from cokkes comb (1560s, see cockscomb). Johnson has coxcomical (adj.) "foppish, conceited," but discourages it as "a low word unworthy of use."