释义 |
lifey, a.|ˈlaɪfɪ| Also 5 livi, lyfy, 9 lifie. [f. life n. + -y.] †a. Characteristic of or belonging to life (obs.). b. Lively, spirited.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 119 Not oonly animal vertues..ben I-chaungid, also naturel & liui vertues [Add. MS. lyfy]. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxxix. 359 A tenderness..that..runs through one's heart, in the same lifey current. 1808–25Jamieson, Lifey, lively, spirited. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 64 There never march'd for open weir A troop sae lifey and sae jolly. 1910Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 706/2 Those [sapphires] found in Ceylon, which are lighter in colour and ‘lifier’ than any of the others. |