| 释义 |
sportaˈbility
[f. next + -ity.]
Capacity for being sportive or playful.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Passport, I have something within me which cannot bear the shock of the least indecent insinuation; in the sportability of chit-chat I have often endeavoured to conquer it. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman III. 105 Assuming an air of juvenile sportability. 1835Fraser's Mag. XII. 235 We see the Greek girl preparing to sing with a languishing sportability of air. |