zhuangbility
English
editEtymology
editMandarin 裝屄/装屄 (zhuāngbī, “(vulgar) to flaunt oneself”) + -bility.
Noun
editzhuangbility (uncountable)
- (Chinglish, Internet slang, vulgar) Pretension; the state of being a poseur.
- 2010, Kai Du, Yinyin Cai, “Culture and high education in China”, in International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, :
- Because of zhuangbility in diploma and tutors, many excellent students are crowded out of higher education.
- 2020, Ou Ning, Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction[2], →ISBN, page xliii:
- To me, what Tolstoy did was simply “class transvestitism,” a kind of zhuangbility (a coined word mixing Chinese and English, which roughly means being pretentious) in disguise, because differences in family background, education, and ability cannot be concealed.
Quotations
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