pushmi-pullyu

短语

词形变化

pushmi-pullyus 复数 pushmi-pullyus

别名

pushme-pullyou pushmepullyou

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Conflicting or contradictory.

  2. 2.

    in teleosemantics, being a representation with both indicative and imperative content.

词源

From Pushmi-pullyu, the name of a fictional animal with two heads at opposing ends of its body, along with very sharp horns on each side of the head, in Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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