shirtfront

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The front part of a shirt.
    — In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
  2. A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
    — I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
  3. A pitch that is easy to bat on.
  4. A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
  5. An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house. slang
    — It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.
动词 v.
  1. To confront in a threatening manner. Australia,transitive
    — This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.

词形变化

shirtfronts plural shirtfronts present,singular,third-person shirtfronting participle,present shirtfronted participle,past shirtfronted past

词源

词源 1
From shirt + front.
词源 2
From shirt + front.
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