| 释义 |
sheepy, a. rare.|ˈʃiːpɪ|
[f. sheep + -y1.]
a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling sheep.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. vi. (Skeat) l. 161 It greveth me to remembre these dyvers sentences, in janglinge of these shepy people. a1586Sidney Ps. cxliv. viii, The sheepy prease, The streetes shall scantly hold. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 7 The ‘La Alláh il Alláh!’..is of all human sounds the most like bleating. It is sheep-ier than monotonous; it is absolutely mutton-ous. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. I. viii. 131 He called the social English the most sheepy of sheep.
b. Full of sheep.
1934Dylan Thomas Let. 25 Apr. (1966) 110, I even go without a coat (sometimes) in this cold weather, & tread be-jumpered over the sheepy fields. 1979R. Barnard Posthumous Papers viii. 73 The lonely, sheepy expanses of her native land. |