单词 | pudgily |
释义 | pudgilyadv. In the manner of a pudgy person or animal; (hence) lethargically, inelegantly, or unimaginatively. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adverb] > and broadly dumpily1880 stumpily1886 stockily1892 pudgily1894 squidgily1933 1894 Scribner's Mag. July 103/1 With one hand she firmly grasped her pocket, the other went pudgily groping amid her skirt folds. 1926 Harper's Mag. Feb. 351/1 One day she escorted the pudgily tottering six-weeks-old youngsters [sc. puppies] on a ramble over the lawn. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One 24 Wilbur K. Lutit had been alive then; had, indeed, once pudgily shaken his hand. 1978 R. Barnard Unruly Son iii. 34 He remained pudgily sunk in the easy chair. 1992 J. Barnes Talking it Over (BNC) 24 How pudgily typical of Stuart to choose Jules et Jim—likeable enough, but not exactly central to post-war cinema. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1894 |
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