| 释义 |
dimmish, a.|ˈdɪmɪʃ|
[f. dim a. + -ish.]
Somewhat dim.
1683Tryon Way to Health 96 Its flame is not clear..but of a dimmish Brimstone colour. 1724Swift Stella's Birthday 42 My eyes are somewhat dimish grown. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 899 Our eyes have got rather dimmish. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxvi. 372 We was a standing there in the dimmish light. 1967A. Laski Seven Other Years xiii. 183 An amiable but..‘dimmish’ heavy⁓weight of fifteen. 1969J. Drummond People in Glass House xvii. 72 She was a sort of goose-girl type... Dimmish. But pretty. |