persiflate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To engage in persiflage; to banter. intransitive,rare,transitive
    — We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.

词形变化

persiflates present,singular,third-person persiflating participle,present persiflated participle,past persiflated past persifflate alternative

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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