单词 | hard-bodied |
释义 | hard-bodiedadj. That has a hard body, exterior, etc. Also in later use (of a person): that has a physically toned body, typically as the result of exercise; cf. hardbody n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > having large lacertosea1400 well-brawneda1450 brawned?1507 muscly1551 brawny1598 musculous1609 muscular1736 hard-bodied1785 thewy1845 muscularized1896 stacked1998 hench2003 1785 Morning Chron. 21 May (advt.) Thirty or forty dozen very hard-bodied Wax Candles, suitable for public places. 1848 A. Adams in E. Belcher Narr. Voy. H.M.S. Samarang II. 256 The imagination can scarcely conceive the bizarre, and fantastic shapes with which it has pleased Nature to invest those hard-bodied Spiders, called by naturalists Acrosoma. 1872 H. B. Edwardes & H. Merivale Life Sir Henry Lawrence I. 22 A very rough Irish lad, hard-bodied, iron-constitutioned, who could, when necessary, take or give a licking with a good grace. 1927 Forest & Stream July 446/3 The manufacturers claim that a fish holds it longer than the hard-bodied lures. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem iv. 40 She was a hard-bodied high-yellow woman with a perfect figure. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes viii. 112/2 Parrotfishes..have a highly modified pharyngeal apparatus that can crush hard-bodied prey. 2013 Eureka (Calif.) Times-Standard (Nexis) 6 Jan. TV ads no longer tempt with sugary visions of chocolatey treats, opting to substitute videos of hard-bodied men and bikini-clad women sweating to the latest exercise DVD. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1785 |
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