| 释义 |
dashed, ppl. a.|dæʃt|
[f. dash v. + -ed1.]
1. Struck violently against or by something; splashed; mingled, tempered, etc.: see the verb.
1646Crashaw Steps to Temple Poems 53 Torn skulls, and dash'd out brains. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. App. lxvii, Their dashèd bodies welter in the weedy scum. 1772Town & Country Mag. 88 Half a dozen glasses of dashed wine. 1879Spectator 6 Sept. 1126/2 Seeing it [the garden] present a more or less dashed appearance.
2. Marked with a dash, underlined.
1859Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 154 Your dashed ‘induce’ gives the idea that Lyell had unfairly urged Murray.
3. slang or colloq. A euphemism for ‘damned’ (see dash v. 11). Also advb., deucedly, confoundedly. Hence ˈdashedly adv.
1881W. E. Norris Matrimony III. 300 A dashed pack of quacks and swindlers. 1888J. Payn Prince of Blood I. xi. 187 He would find himself dashedly mistaken. 1893W. S. Gilbert Utopia 11, How utterly dashed absurd. |