| 单词 | glossy tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasglossy tongue a. Having a gloss; smooth and shining; highly polished; lustrous. spec. in Pathology, designating morbid symptoms, as glossy skin, glossy tongue. Also designating photographic or printing paper that is smooth and shiny; hence denoting a magazine, etc., printed on such paper, or something that is characteristic of the type of material which is published in such magazines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light browna1000 brightOE cleara1300 slighta1300 burnedc1384 burnishedc1400 orientc1400 orientalc1450 sheeningc1480 refulgenta1500 silken1513 lustrantc1550 glossy1556 crisp1567 lustring1582 shiny1590 of shine1601 glossful1606 lustry1610 lustrousa1616 nitent1616 illustriousa1626 polished1649 lustrious1651 sheeny1673 shining1674 splendy1683 glazy1724 smolt1837 lustreful1843 lustred1858 sheened1920 society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > magazine > type of glossy1930 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxviii. 141 Yet hath that glossy web estimacion more. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 98 in Poems Merabs long hair was glossy chestnut brown. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 672 The rest [of the hill] entire Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic Ore. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 My self will search..For downy Peaches and the glossie Plum. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 9 Glossy Jett is pair'd with shining White. 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 430 10½ yards striped glossy silk. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 183 Its streak somewhat glossy. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 224 His eyes were of a glossy white, and his tongue furred. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 64 He comes..in a very glossy hat, the only man in the room not in cap and gown. 1870 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 3) ii. 32 The American army surgeons..have confirmed my description [in 1864] of this ‘glossy skin’. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxxi The sharp contrast between the dazzling white of the tables and the glossy black faces and heads of the waiters. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 345 If general it [i.e. glossitis] is often called glossy tongue. 1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. p. xv (advt.) Citos glossy P.O.P. Citos matte P.O.P. 1930 Post Office Electr. Engin. Jrnl. July 101/1 The stock of printing papers, which all are ‘Glossy’. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xii. 88 One of those smart, glossy, illustrated magazines. 1936 Archit. Rev. 80 135/1 Salzburg, full of Americans in green corduroy shorts reading their glossy magazines. 1955 M. Gilbert Sky High viii. 117 She had made a pile of the glossy weeklies, and was looking at the latest copy of Country Life. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 636/4 Like Harper's it is ‘semi-glossy’ and determinedly middle-brow, half way between the stringently intellectual and specialized Kenyon, Sewanee, Hudson and Partisan Reviews and the glossy and sophisticated Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. 1967 Observer 1 Oct. 9/1 The ignorant and the downright stupid, whose only idea of what to expect is derived from glossy travel brochures. < as lemmas |
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