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形容詞

pomposo (comparative more pomposo, superlative most pomposo)

1. (music) Ceremonious and dignified.

副詞

pomposo (comparative more pomposo, superlative most pomposo)

1. (music) In a ceremonious and dignified manner.

名詞

pomposo (plural pomposos)

1. (slang, derogatory, dated) An arrogant, boastful or self-important person.
   • 1876, Bret Harte, The Poetical Works, Including the Drama of "The Two Men of Sandy Bar", page 414:

     I have heard that this pomposo, this braggart, is a Yankee trick too; that he has the front of a lion, the liver of the chicken.

   • 1912, Grant Richards, Caviare, page 186:

     After all, it isn't amusing for the grand seigneurs, the pomposos, of the art-dealing world to have their opinions first questioned and then disproved again and again by someone so much younger and, according to their standards, so much less equipped.

   • 1992, William F. Buckley, Windfall, The End of the Affair:

     The book's sheer joy lies in her hour-by-hour outwitting the young pomposo, resulting in a frustrated entry in his journal on Sunday morning.

参照

• “pomposo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.