2013年12月14日 星期六

motormouth, mouthy, slinky, bejeweled, guidebook, marginalised



Alessandro Nivola and Bradley Cooper in

'American Hustle'

Big Hair, Bad Scams, Motormouths

By MANOHLA DARGIS

"American Hustle," starring Christian Bale and Amy Adams, may be about a famous federal sting, but it's also a love story.


Teams of young people start making their multi-media portrait of
Berlin

The 'Watch My City' project aims to equip marginalised young people in
Berlin with the skills to produce a multimedia portrait of the city that
wouldn't be found in regular tourist guidebooks.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew2ch7I44va89pI3

Celebrities tell you more about the countries that produce them than any guidebook could. Take the mouthy, pugnacious Londoner Jade Goody, 27 and famous in the U.K. simply for being famous. Her joyfully lowbrow chatter struck a chord with the British public in 2002 when she appeared on the TV reality show Big Brother. Five years later, when Goody graduated to Celebrity Big Brother, Britons were less comfortable seeing themselves reflected in her instinctive hostility toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the slinky, bejeweled personification


motormouth

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtəməʊθ/
Translate motormouth | into Italian

noun

informal
  • a person who talks quickly and incessantly.

Derivatives

motormouthed

adjective

mouthy
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
  1. Annoyingly talkative.
  2. Given to ranting or bombast.
mouthiness mouth'i·ness n.

slinky
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
  1. Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking.
  2. Informal. Graceful, sinuous, and sleek: wore a slinky outfit to the party.
slinkily slink'i·ly adv.
slinkiness slink'i·ness n.

bejeweled
adj.
Decorated with or as if with jewels.


guidebook
Meaning #1: something that offers basic information or instruction
Synonym: guide

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