cockalorum

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒkəˌlɔːɹəm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts. countable
    — I remark that everyone (with the exception of such Cockalorums as the Guard, who rather stands on the dignity of his uniform, I imagine) understands the Captain's English, while they don't seem to get on very well with my French.
  2. Boastful speech, crowing. uncountable
    — 'Sounding grander is not always better,' answered the cobber. 'Did you never hear tell of High Cockalorum?' / 'High Cockalorum! What's that?' / 'It's what they call high footling speech, or a self-important man who likes to call everything by fancy names,' said his master. 'And as I heard it, it didn't do the man in the tale any good at all.'
  3. A game similar to leapfrog. uncountable
    — We played cockalorum from one side of the street to the other.

词形变化

cockalorums plural

词汇关系

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词源

Possibly English cock (“rooster”), with -a- and Latin -lorum suffixed as a fanciful elaboration; or from a Dutch onomatopoeic dialect term kockeloeren (“the cry of a rooster; cock-a-doodle-doo”), hence the modern Dutch verb koekeloeren (“to crow”).
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