| 释义 |
mothy, a.|ˈmɒθɪ|
[f. moth n.1 + -y.]
Infested by moths; characterized by the presence of moths; suggestive of a moth, resembling the movements of the wings of a moth.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 49 His horse hip'd with an olde mothy saddle, and stirrops of no kindred. 1598Florio, Tarmoso, mothie, full of mothes or wormes. 1613Uncasing of Machivils Instr. 16 Raile on a Broker whose clothes are mothie. 1890Illustr. Lond. News 27 Dec. 810/1 Their mothy leathern covers. 1898Hardy Wessex Poems 155 At mothy curfew-tide. 1917― Moments of Vision 255 Some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm. 1949E. Bowen Heat of Day vi. 113 Your mothy way of blinking and laziness about keeping your eyelids open. |