英语词汇“dictionary-proof”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dictionary-proof adj. rare †(a) (apparently) of proven ability through having compiled a dictionary (obsolete); (b) against which the use of a dictionary is ineffective.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use.

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1819 Sporting Mag. Dec. 122/2 Grose too, with all his professional knowledge of slang, and who was even dictionary-proof upon this subject.

1871 ‘P. Ludlow’ Red-Shanty Boys xviii. 329 Jonas plied them with the longest and toughest words he could find, till it seemed as if they were dictionary proof.

1894 Engineering Mag. Aug. 737/1 If they are case-hardened and dictionary-proof they go calmly on gathering in clients, gaining important pieces of work, and waxing rich, regardless of the bellowings that are intended to efface them from off the earth.

2001 J. D. Williams & J. Edley Everything Scrabble (rev. ed.) xxiv. 291 Peter Morris..pulled a fast one against dictionary-proof Robert Felt.., who has one of the best vocabularies around.

单词	dictionary-proof
释义	> as lemmas dictionary-proof dictionary-proof adj. rare †(a) (apparently) of proven ability through having compiled a dictionary (obsolete); (b) against which the use of a dictionary is ineffective.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use. ΚΠ 1819 Sporting Mag. Dec. 122/2 Grose too, with all his professional knowledge of slang, and who was even dictionary-proof upon this subject. 1871 ‘P. Ludlow’ Red-Shanty Boys xviii. 329 Jonas plied them with the longest and toughest words he could find, till it seemed as if they were dictionary proof. 1894 Engineering Mag. Aug. 737/1 If they are case-hardened and dictionary-proof they go calmly on gathering in clients, gaining important pieces of work, and waxing rich, regardless of the bellowings that are intended to efface them from off the earth. 2001 J. D. Williams & J. Edley Everything Scrabble (rev. ed.) xxiv. 291 Peter Morris..pulled a fast one against dictionary-proof Robert Felt.., who has one of the best vocabularies around. extracted from dictionaryn.adj. < as lemmas
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