释义 |
lumberly, a.|ˈlʌmbəlɪ| [f. lumber v.1 + -ly1.] Clumsy, cumbrous.
1805Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 488 The latter word shall have become an incurable synonym, a lumberly duplicate. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Lummerly or Lumberly, awkward, cumbrous. 1880J. A. H. Murray Address to Philol. Soc. 30 England is stirring, in a slow, lumberly, and timorous fashion. |