persiflate

词形变化

persiflated persiflates 三单 persiflates persiflating persiflating 现在分词 persiflated 过去式 persiflated 过去分词

别名

persifflate

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To engage in persiflage; to banter.

    不及物 罕用 及物

词源

Borrowed from French persifler, persiffler, or formed from persiflage + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Coined by British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1850 (see quotation below).

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