| 释义 |
pewy, a. Hunting slang.|ˈpjuːɪ|
[f. pew n.1 + -y.]
Of country: Divided into small enclosures by fences, as a church is into pews.
1828Sporting Mag. XXII. 359 The largest portion of our Eastern sportsmen..would prove cock-tails in a pewey and stiff country. 1885Daily Tel. 11 Dec. (Farmer), Sixty or seventy years since the fences were stronger, the enclosures smaller, the country more pewy. |