outflap

词形变化

outflapped outflapping outflaps 三单 outflaps outflapping 现在分词 outflapped 过去式 outflapped 过去分词

释义与例句

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    To be more flapperish than.

    过时 幽默 罕用 及物

    […] outflap the flapper; it is more important and more becoming to be optimistic, active, young in thought, with due regard for the proprieties and expectations of years of discretion.

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries A morbid terror of being thought learned seemed from that moment to possess Clifton, and to make up for her neglected youth she began to outflap the veriest flapper in a stern resolve not to be taken seriously.

词源

From out- + flap.

来源:wiktionary