zhuangbility

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 裝屄／装屄 (zhuāngbī, “(vulgar) to flaunt oneself”) +‎ -bility.

Noun

zhuangbility (uncountable)

1. (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, →DOI:

     Because of zhuangbility in diploma and tutors, many excellent students are crowded out of higher education.

   • 2019, “Trade Deficit: Chinese Exported into English”, in T. R. Mwanaka, editor, Nationalism: (mis)understanding Donald Trump's Capitalism, Racism, Global Politics, International Trade and Media Wars‎^[1], volume 2, →ISBN:

     Jennifer enjoys playing zhuangbility. She is nobody but a sexretary.

   • 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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