“deevy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

deevy

释义

deevy, a. colloq.|ˈdiːvɪ|
Also deevey, deevie, devey, devy.
[Affected alteration of divvy a.]
‘Divine’; delightful, sweet, charming.
1900E. Glyn Visits Eliz. 11 Miss La Touche..said my hat was ‘too devey for words’.1904E. F. Benson Challoners xi, ‘Martin,’ she cried, ‘you are too deevey!’1905Punch 8 Mar. 178/1 Do look at this sweet little monkey on the organ! Isn't he deevie!1906Ibid. 13 June 422/2, I had the most devy doll you can imagine.1909H. A. Vachell Paladin i, The affair..was so appropriate, so obviously fashioned in heaven, so ‘deevy’—a word coined in those days, and now regrettably become obsolete.1930V. Sackville-West Edwardians i. 17 Tommy, you're going, aren't you? How too deevy!1942English Studies XXIV. 186 ‘Too deevy (divine) for words’ is the flapper's reaction to what she moderately approves of.
Hence ˈdeevily adv.
1905E. F. Benson Image in Sand vii, How too deliciously eerie! How deevily mysterious!

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