单词 | farmyardy |
释义 | farmyardyadj. Of, resembling, or suggestive of (the life of) a farmyard; dirty, coarse. Now chiefly of a smell, taste, etc.: characteristic or suggestive of farm animals or manure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [adjective] > farmyard farmyard1686 farmyardy1889 1889 Coventry Herald 11 Oct. 7/2 Communicating with the yard by a door at the bottom are some donkey stables, and on the side opposite the horses is a fowl pen. The place is farmyardy in appearance—and smell. 1892 A. Cambridge My Guardian xix. 266 I..met him in his farmyardy leggings, and with ice-needles in his beard. 1899 M. E. Grant Duff Notes from Diary 1881–1886 I. 239 In the centre of the town there is a good deal that is striking, and many pretty little arched windows; but the remoter portions of it are waste and farmyardy. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xii. 93 Fancy forcing yourself on a woman who didn't want you..! People in the 'eighties and 'nineties didn't understand how disgusting it was. Thank goodness, they do now..! Things are much better in that way than they were—not nearly so stuffy and farmyardy. 2015 J. Harbutt et al. World Cheese Bk. (rev. ed.) 236/1 The taste and aroma is farmyardy, meaty with a sweet spicy finish. Compounds farmyardy looking adj. resembling or suggestive of a farmyard or a farmyard animal in appearance. ΚΠ 1890 Sat. Rev. 20 Dec. 707/1 We cannot truthfully say that this enormous, white, farmyardy looking pig is exactly our idea of a wild boar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1889 |
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