| 单词 | nasty nice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnasty nice Extremely; (frequently with negative force) excessively, overly, to an extreme. Often in compounds with the sense ‘overly fastidious or picky’, as nasty neat, nasty nice (nice adj. 3b), †nasty particular. Also (usually with a verb): completely, utterly. ΚΠ 1836 W. G. Simms Mellichampe I. xiv. 142 It's a nasty fine piece of steel, now, captain, and if you gives me much more trouble I shall let you have a small taste of its qualities. 1844 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall (1917) v. 26 I'm not nasty particular..about making money. c1873 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 142 It means nowt if th' mustard an' th' pickled onions have getten on th' apple-pasty... They're noan nasty nice. 1916 in W. F. Macy & R. B. Hussey Nantucket Scrap-basket 28 Cousin Eunice..had a reputation in her day for being what was called ‘nasty neat’. 1953 Mod. Lang. Notes 68 275 This nominalist and materialist conception of Keats appears to stem from irritation with what Ford thinks of as a hypocritical and nasty-nice Platonism in Keats scholarship. 1999 New Yorker 68 275 They're over at the Hunter's getting nasty drunk and selling one another wolf tickets. < as lemmas |
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