单词 | cragged |
释义 | craggedadj.1 a. Formed into, beset with, or abounding in crags. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [adjective] craggy1447 cragged1572 anfractuous1845 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde ii. f. 10v The waters descending out of the cragged rockes. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iv. iv. 229 Through a Country so cragged. 1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 201 Cragged Ways and dangerous Precipices. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 115 The mountains were lofty, with snowy peaks and cragged sides. b. transferred and figurative. Rugged, rough. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] unevenc1275 rudea1393 craggeda1400 knaggedc1430 raggedc1450 raggy1483 cocklya1529 rugged1528 knaggy1552 unlevel?a1560 craggy1568 scraggy1574 balkish1577 cockling1582 cockled1600 unequal1613 salebrous1633 scragged1641 inequal1661 unevenly1683 hummocky1767 snaggly1794 snaggy1806 hobblya1825 shreddy1835 scraggly1869 bobbly1909 pebbly1923 snaggled1938 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] hardOE rudea1375 stern1390 rougha1400 discordanta1425 stoutc1440 hoarse1513 harsh1530 raughtish1567 rugged1567 dissonant1573 harshy1582 jarry1582 immelodious1601 cragged1605 raggeda1616 unmusicala1616 absonousa1620 unharmoniousa1634 inharmonical1683 unharmonic1694 inharmonious1715 craggy1774 pebbly1793 reedy1795 iron1807 dry1819 inharmonic1828 asperated1835 sawing1851 shrewd1876 coarse1879 callithumpian1886 dissonantal1946 ear-bending1946 sandpaper1953 a1400 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) xli. 384 As knave wyth this craggyd knad hym kylle I. 1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. cxx. 150 b A cragged headlong downefall. 1605 W. Camden Remaines Our English names running rough with cragged consonants. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 404 He is not rough and cragged, but smooth and polished. 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. ii. viii. 375 Having..a sharp and cragged Stone in the Right Kidney. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). craggedadj.2 Chiefly in parasynthetic combinations: Having a…neck, -necked; as in narrow-craiged. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] yswerreda1400 halsedc1540 cragged1607 cervical1681 necked1841 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 14 His necke straight, firme..and not (as my countrey-men say) withie craggd, which is loose and plyant. 1722 A. Ramsay Fables xvii A narrow craiged Pig. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1a1400adj.21607 |
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