| 释义 |
quaintish, a.|ˈkweɪntɪʃ|
[f. quaint a. + -ish1.]
Somewhat quaint.
1594Willobie Avisa (1880) 53 Your quaintish quirkes can want no mate. 1796Lamb Let. to Coleridge in Final Mem. i. 195 The concluding simile is far-fetched—‘tempest-honoured’ is a quaintish phrase. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. xi. 449 The laureate has alluded to the present effect..in some happy but quaintish lines.
So ˈquaintlike a.
1844Blackw. Mag. LVI. 159 Good and quaintlike old gentle rhymes they are. |