单词 | masty |
释义 | mastyadj. Now English regional. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > fattened mastiff1440 mastyc1450 masteda1500 brawned1552 brawny-chined1726 c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 1777 Ye masty [v.r. maisty] swyn, ye ydel wrechches. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/1 Masty fatte as swyne be, gras. b. Chiefly of a person: burly, big-bodied. Cf. mastiff adj.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and broad massya1382 stout1390 burlyc1400 corporalc1475 massive1485 poisy1538 big-made1566 chopping1566 grossa1578 large-bodied1577 weighty1581 burly-boned1590 mastya1593 lumbering1593 giantisha1635 gigantic1651 mastiff1668 large-made1725 lusty1777 bowerly1794 squelching1854 beef to the heel(s)1867 hefty1867 a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. sig. H4v A masty slaue he is. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 14 May (1970) I. 138 Some masty Duchmen came on board. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 164 Some few of these stout and resolute soldiers with these little engines, do often put to flight a huge masty Bear. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qq4v/3 A masty Fellow, un gros Paisan. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 88 Masty, very large and big: as ‘They're a masty family’. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 186/2 Masty, of a person; big and strong. a. Of a tree or wood: yielding mast. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful > bearing mast masty1575 mastful1605 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxviii. 217 In the vineyards, in the hollow mastie woods. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 32 Shaddowed with greene and tender leaues of mastie Okes, Beeches [etc.]. 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. H2 The Masty Beeche. 1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families ii. 12 The Elm, the Esk, the Oak, the mastie Beech, The Pear, the Apple, and the rough g[r]ound Peach. b. Composed of mast. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1753 J. Warton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in Wks. I. 227 The wild ash stood with pear-tree blossoms hoar, And swine beneath the elm have crack'd the masty store. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1450 |
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