单词 | acridly |
释义 | acridlyadv. In an acrid manner. 1. With bitter pungency to the organs of taste or smell, or to the skin; irritatingly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adverb] > bitterly acridly1634 acerbly1793 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. lviii. 690 The excrements being baked becomming more acridly hot cause inflammation, and by raising up flatulencies encrease the distension through all the guts. 1714 J. Browne Inst. Physick 308 Oily Seeds being made acridly rancid by continual decay. 1793 J. Abernethy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 61 Not so acridly or nauseously bitter as common bile. 1845 Med. Times June 275/1 The fresh leaves have a narcotic smell, and an acridly bitter, nauseous taste. 1872 Med. & Surg. Reporter 20 Apr. 342/2 Skin parched and acridly hot. 1900 Outlook 15 Sept. 180/1 The rasher fried acridly against the bottom of the pan. 1977 H. Steinhauer tr. G. Hauptmann in Twelve German Novellas 454 Into Francesco's nose the odor of cattle and goats rose more and more acridly, mingled with the rare, invigorating mountain air. 2004 Outside Jan. 38/2 Many go for the same reasons we travel: to experience the unfamiliar. To eat goat cheese from the green cave of Magaha, queso de cabra that is so acridly tart it makes your mouth water. 2. With bitterness of feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adverb] tartlyc1000 sour?a1513 sourlya1533 crabbedly1574 acridlya1750 acrimoniously1753 acerbly1793 tartishly1823 sourishly1846 acidulously1889 vinegarishly1890 a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) III. 402 Hatred is sullen fury, long retain'd; 'Tis willing mischief; warily restrain'd: 'Tis thought's corrosion, acridly perplex'd, 'Tis self in pain, lest others live, unvex'd. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. i. 340 Complimentary harangues! Of which..as Loustalot acridly calculates, ‘upwards of two thousand have been delivered within the last month’. 1889 N. Amer. Rev. May 629 I have known women acridly jealous of their husbands' affection for their own relatives. 1903 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ All on Irish Shore 15 ‘I'm sure Fennessy wishes to hear no more of it,’ said Barnet acridly to Mrs. Griffen, when Mrs. Alexander had passed swiftly out of hearing, ‘after the way those girls have been worryin' on at him about it all the morning. Such a set out!’ 1959 N. Coward Let. in Diary (2000) 395 To me it's acridly funny when something flops that has taken me months to write and compose. 1987 Los Angeles Times vi. 1/1 If Sammy was too acridly well-observed for Hollywood comfort, it was still clear that Schulberg wrote from a position of love for the movies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1634 |
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