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    If a film, a book, or a person is preachy, they try too hard to push a lesson or an opinion — and the speaker does not like it. The word always complains a little. A preachy story keeps stopping to tell you how you should think. A preachy friend sounds as if they are giving a sermon at the dinner table. It comes from preach, the church-speaking word, though actually you use preachy about school talks, , and parents too: anywhere the moral is too loud. It does not mean the idea is wrong. It means the way of saying it feels heavy, as if they know better than you.

    說教的、愛講大道理的(帶嫌棄;不是中性的「有教育意義」)

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組成preach + -y (having that quality). The -y is an old English ending that turns a word into full of / like that.

同家族的字

  • preachpreachy is preach turned into an adjective that criticises
  • preachersame root; a preacher's job is to preach, but preachy is when that tone leaks into ordinary talk

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

preachyadj/ˈpɹit͡ʃi/

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    Tending toward excessive moralization.

    • My old fussbudget aunt had a very preachy manner and would prattle on about the dangers of alcohol and other vices.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。