Citations:mood

English citations of mood

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• 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

  The Ghost was greatly pleased to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with such favour, that he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay until the guests departed. But this the Spirit said could not be done.

slang

mention:

• 2019, Nye-Cye A. Wells, MOOD, Nye-Cye A. Wells (→ISBN), page 39:

  "Mood." - this is said when something is relatable. Ex.: Your friend says "I hate this class" you respond back and say "mood."

uses:

• 2020, Birgit Breidenbach, Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity, Routledge (→ISBN)

  A video of a celebrity dancing like no one is watching can be a 'whole mood'; one of Greta Thunberg frowning at Donald Trump is a 'big mood.' On social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter, the hashtag 'mood' has thus gained increasing popularity. […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. A mood in this sense is never singular and never associated with an isolated individual. 'X is a mood' signifies that X is familiar to a plurality […]