| 单词 | duckety-mud |
| 释义 | > as lemmasduckety-mud Designating a drab nondescript colour, esp. a dull brown resembling the colour of mud; of such a colour. Frequently appositive in duckety-mud adj. Cf. dunduckety adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured wannish?a1412 colourless1557 sullena1586 sober1603 dingy1665 dunduckety1818 duckety1841 drabbish1842 neutral-tinted1844 drabby1862 drab1880 drably-tinted1891 terne1901 1841 Safety of Jersey iii. 40 Do you observe that personage, with a ducketty-mud sort of shooting coat and a would-be white cravat. 1882 Let. 29 May in P. O'Farrell Lett. from Irish Austral. (1984) 67 Medium height and fair with some beard and whiskers of a duckety mud colour. 1886 E. Lawless Hurrish I. 66 The solid stone walls had happily never been whitewashed, so that years, instead of degrading them to a ducketty grey with inky streaks, had endowed them with a delightfully diffusive crop of yellow lichens. 1887 Belgravia Jan. 302 Soft fine hair (duckety-mud colour, my favourite) coiled lightly on the top of her head. 1909 P. W. Browne Where Fishers Go xxvii. 274 The Esquimaux dog is usually of a mottled black and white color; but sometimes of a tawny yellowish hue (duckedy-mud color, it is termed by Newfoundland fishermen). 1993 E. A. Proulx Shipping News xiii. 113 I can see her now in a old duckety-mud coat. < as lemmas |
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