nestyadj.

Brit.

/ˈnɛsti/, U.S.

/ˈnɛsti/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nest n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < nest n. + -y suffix¹.

(a) Containing nests; resembling a nest. rare. (b) Domestic, home-making, ‘broody’. Cf. nesting n. 1b.

ΚΠ

1860 Harper's Mag. Mar. 495/2 A one-eyed man, who sat on the rickety steps of an old crows-nesty, mouldy, tumble-down tenement house.]

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 8 His eyes would be pulled down like to the nesty streaky water.

1980 J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men iii. 60 She..missed the nesty vigour of family life.

1990 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. (Weekend Mag.) 72/2 In 1946, ‘feeling nesty’, she married him.

1993 I. Maitland Cathedral xxiii. 185 Lying rigid in the dark, I had caught a whiff of myself—a dreadful pong, horribly nesty.

1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 119 I was all nesty and gooey about Daniel, smug about being a real woman—so irrepressibly fecund!

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nesty
释义	nestyadj. Brit. /ˈnɛsti/, U.S. /ˈnɛsti/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nest n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < nest n. + -y suffix¹. (a) Containing nests; resembling a nest. rare. (b) Domestic, home-making, ‘broody’. Cf. nesting n. 1b. ΚΠ 1860 Harper's Mag. Mar. 495/2 A one-eyed man, who sat on the rickety steps of an old crows-nesty, mouldy, tumble-down tenement house.] 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 8 His eyes would be pulled down like to the nesty streaky water. 1980 J. O'Faolain No Country for Young Men iii. 60 She..missed the nesty vigour of family life. 1990 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. (Weekend Mag.) 72/2 In 1946, ‘feeling nesty’, she married him. 1993 I. Maitland Cathedral xxiii. 185 Lying rigid in the dark, I had caught a whiff of myself—a dreadful pong, horribly nesty. 1996 H. Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1997) 119 I was all nesty and gooey about Daniel, smug about being a real woman—so irrepressibly fecund! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1893
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