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派生語

名詞

namedrop (plural namedrops)

1. An instance of name-dropping.
   • 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”

アナグラム

• pardon me, pomander

語源

From name +‎ drop.

動詞

name-drop (third-person singular simple present name-drops, present participle name-dropping, simple past and past participle name-dropped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To casually mention a well-known or illustrious person or the titles of their works, often implying familiarity or association, especially in order to impress others, increase one's status, or to appear knowledgeable or fashionable.

   Synonym: namecheck

関連する語

• name-dropping

Further reading

• name-dropping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• pardon me, pomander