1570s, from cokkes comb (1560s, see cockscomb). Johnson has coxcomical (adj.) "foppish, conceited," but discourages it as "a low word unworthy of use."
双语例句
1. Jones was not so vain and senseless a coxcomb as to expect.
琼斯并不是那么一个不自量,没头没脑的浪荡哥儿.
来自辞典例句
2. He is a plausible coxcomb.
他是个巧言令色的花花公子.
来自辞典例句
3. He is a coxcomb.
他是一个纨绔子弟.
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英英释意
1. a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
2. a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red
3. the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
