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zooty

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/08/03 18:43 UTC 版)

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zooty (comparative more zooty, superlative most zooty)

1. (dated, informal) Stylish, flashy, snappy.
   • 1988 Martin A. Janis, The Joys of Aging, Dallas: Word Publishing, p. 122,
     A man of 75 may be feeling pretty frisky. Frisky enough that he starts chasing the girls of 25. He divorces his wife, buys a set of “zooty threads” as he calls them, and a zippy convertible, and has himself a big time in Las Vegas.
   • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13,
     From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.

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