pushmi-pullyu

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner.
    — This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political
形容词 adj.
  1. Conflicting or contradictory. not-comparable
    — It's one of the most characteristic behavior patterns of human beings, this pushmepullyou approach to life. We say one thing and do another […]
  2. in teleosemantics, being a representation with both indicative and imperative content. not-comparable
    — What […] are the steps from […] the sort of inarticulate pushmi-pullyu comprehensions the bee has and the dim sort of pushmi-pullyu comprehension that mediates responses to behavior releasers, to articulate, well-differentiated, and uncommitted human beliefs and desires […]?

词形变化

pushmi-pullyus plural pushme-pullyou alternative pushme-pullyou alternative

词源

词源 1
From Pushmi-pullyu, the name of a fictional animal with two heads at opposing ends of its body, along with very sharp horns on each side of the head, in Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
词源 2
From Pushmi-pullyu, the name of a fictional animal with two heads at opposing ends of its body, along with very sharp horns on each side of the head, in Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle.
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