GENTILITY
ADJECTIVES
► COCKTAILIAN designating a class of people who have assumed the rank of gentlemen, although not qualified as such by birth → 1845 obs.
► HALF-HUNG-TEE of persons aping their betters: pretentious, affecting gentility → 1929 Sc.
NOUNS
► LADYNESS gentility, ladylikeness → 1823 Sc.
► NICE-NELLYISM prudishness, excessive gentility, puritanical behaviour or attitudes → 1935 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► HALF-NIBS one who apes gentility → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► LA-DI-DA one who affects gentility → c1883 sl.
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