单词 | slopy |
释义 | slopyadj.n. A. adj. Sloping. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping pyramidala1398 shoringc1503 slopec1503 pitching1519 current?1523 battering1589 pitched1594 aslope1599 sloping1610 shelving1615 stooping1621 raking1665 sloped1683 shedding1688 slopy1740 raked1948 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 229 When they see the dead Corpse of the unhappy Pamela dragg'd out to these slopy Banks. a1793 G. White Invitation in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1813) 565 Here nature hangs her slopy woods to sight. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. v. 86 A green slopy bank of land. 1866 Amer. Newsp. in Sat. Rev. 14 July 40/1 The tender meetings on the slopy swards of the park. B. n. U.S. slang. (depreciative and offensive). A person from East or South-East Asia; a Chinese person. Cf. slope n.1 6, slopehead n. at slope- comb. form 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > person by shape of eyes or forehead > [noun] slant-eye1929 slant1942 slope1948 slopy1948 roundeye1955 slopehead1966 1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites v. 107 ‘And you'll find it mighty hard, son, to convince Petroleum Developments that the fields aren't as important as a bunch of flea-bitten slopeys!’ ‘Well, go on.’ ‘Okay—as long as you understand that oil's a pretty important commodity—and Chinese ain't.’ 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xii. 85 One might assume that contempt for American imperialism would by now have produced Chinese equivalents of insulting American epithets such as slopeys, slant-eyes and chinks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1740 |
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