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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Babbitt metal.
  2. A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals

Verb

  1. (transitive) To line with Babbitt metal to reduce friction.

Exempel

  • One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired.
  • [...] a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.
  • Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipbabbitted
Imperfektbabbitted
Presensparticipbabbitting
Pluralbabbitts
Tredje person singular indicativ presensbabbitts

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