| 释义 |
rubbery, a.|ˈrʌbərɪ|
[f. rubber n.1 III + -y1.]
Resembling or suggestive of rubber. Also fig. and Comb.
1907Galsworthy Country House ii. v. 147 He left his hand against the animal's warm, soft, rubbery mouth. 1928Collier's 10 Nov. 20/2 He..wrapped a thick hairy arm about Dan's neck in a chancery hold and squeezed his Face into the thick rubbery flesh of his side. 1935W. Cather Lucy Gayheart i. viii. 67 Even his white skin looked harder, somewhat rubbery. 1950J. D. MacDonald Brass Cupcake (1974) x. 95 He paid off with a very rubbery check. 1959Washington Post 19 Jan. a12/2 Mr. Mikoyan's responses to questions on the television program, ‘Meet the Press’, last evening were..as evasive and rubbery a performance as one could imagine. 1962Times 9 Apr. 4/1 His legs went rubbery as Pender smashed him with lefts and rights to the head. 1973Country Life 1 Nov. 1322/1 Palms and rubbery-leaved banana plants. 1977People Weekly 10 Oct. 44/2 There..are the two rubbery faces mugging through those unforgettable sketches that kept America home Saturday nights from 1950 until 1954. |