frou-frou

短语

发音

UK /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
其它
US /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/

词形变化

frou-frous 复数 frou-frous frou-froued frou-frouing frou-frous 三单 frou-frouing 现在分词 frou-froued 过去式 frou-froued 过去分词 more frou-frou 比较级 most frou-frou 最高级

别名

froofroo frufru froufrou froo-froo fru-fru

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.

v.
  1. 1.

    To move with the sound of rustling dresses.

    不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.

  2. 2.

    Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.

    They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

  3. 3.

    Unimportant, silly, useless.

    贬义

    Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.

词源

Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.

来源:wiktionary