单词 | plump-bellied |
释义 | > as lemmasplump-bellied Parasynthetic, as plump-bellied, plump-cheeked, plump-faced, plump-looking, plump-thighed, plump-uddered, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. Cv Nay stay, stay, I will helpe you to a dilicate plump-lipt wench. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. Gv There is no essence mortal, That I can enuie, but a plumpe cheekt foole. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. 46 Many a plump-thigh'd moore, & ful-flanck't marsh. 1658 Publick Intelligencer No. 117. 236 One who calleth himself John Rawlinson, born at Crew in Cheshire, about eighteen or twenty years of age, low of stature, Thick legged,..Plump faced. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 431. ⁋3 A plump-fac'd, hale, fresh-colour'd Girl. 1779 Mirror No. 41. ¶1 I perceived a little before me a short plump-looking man. 1826 T. H. Lister Granby I. vi. 75 Plump-looking little birds. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 22 The stubble fields were tented thick with sheaves of plump-faced wheat. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 127 Thrust it out of men's sight into a long hole in the ground, into the grave, to rot, to feed the mass of its creeping worms and to be devoured by scuttling plump-bellied rats. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 513 A nannygoat passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping currants. 2000 Guardian 6 May (Weekend Suppl.) 56/2 Short, plump-grained rices..are used where creaminess or stickiness are considered desirable. < as lemmas |
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