frou-frou
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
美 /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
— The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks.
动词 v.
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To move with the sound of rustling dresses.
— “Oh, you funny girl! You look so surprised. Confess, now, there's nothing you can hide from me,” and ruffling my hair as she passed she frou-froued out of the room.
形容词 adj.
- Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
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Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
— They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
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Unimportant, silly, useless.
— Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
词源 2
Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
词源 3
Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
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