单词 | tallowy |
释义 | tallowyadj. 1. a. Having the nature or properties of tallow; sebaceous. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > fatty or greasy fatc1000 fattya1398 tallowyc1440 seamya1529 tallowish1552 smeary1582 fattish1589 greasy1592 pinguedinous1599 enseamed1604 pingui-substance1621 pinguid1635 axungious1658 pinguious1705 sevous1726 suety1730 sebaceous1783 pinguitudinous1827 crassy1858 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Talwy, ceposus. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 327/1 Talowye, grasseux. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 112 Oyle, or some other tallowy and moyst matter. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 11 The tallowy rancid mass, called butter. 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 130 The tallowy noisomeness of the temple smells. b. Smeared with tallow; greasy. ΚΠ 1867 N. Macleod Starling II. ix. 111 I assure you he has a taughy fleece tae scoor in this parish! 2. Resembling tallow in colour or complexion. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1830 [implied in: S. Warren in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 939/1 The tallowiness of her complexion. (at tallowiness n.)]. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 170 A tallowy sensual face. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. ii. 11 He was a pale, tallowy creature. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 677 The integument became dense, tallowy in colour and otherwise changed. 3. Of a beast: Abounding in tallow, fat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [adjective] tallowy1495 fatty1615 adipose1653 adipal1656 adipous1667 the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > stout or strong > fat of hawt greesc1460 tallowy1495 well-meated1566 sour1713 meaty1787 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) ix. xix. 357 In Nouembre beestes wexen fatte and talowy and namely swyne. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 528 The bullock..lays himself down, with a lengthening groan, once more into his tallowy laziness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1440 |
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