| 单词 | wiry-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswiry-looking Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as wiry-haired, wiry-leaved, wiry-looking, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > having specific type coat burry1568 wiry-haired1791 wavy-coated1867 pily1878 wavy1884 feathery1889 poodled1905 1791 Barber's Mirror 6 Using such a wiry edged razor, and so cutting and tearing the unfortunate subject of his performance. 1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. I. 186 A light sort of brindled wiry-haired mongrel. 1832 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 30 A slightish, wiry-looking old man. 1861 All Year round 12 Jan. 442/2 The tender wiry-leafed Pekoe. 1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 746/2 A small, fair-haired youth of nineteen or twenty years,..with joints like the wiry-limbed fauns. 1909 R. J. Farrer In Yorks. Garden viii. 148 I was quite terrified at the aspect of the Romulea clumps that my kind Cornish friend sent me the other day, so wild, so long and wiry-haired was their aspect. 1931 Sci. News Let. 19 143/1 An attractive, wiry-stemmed, whorl-branched aquatic plant. 1957 J. M. Murtagh & S. Harris Cast First Stone iv. 63 He..went to the door and pulled it open to admit a funny, wiry-looking little man in his thirties. 1994 Dog World June 179/3 The Affenpinscher is a balanced, little, wiry-haired terrierlike toy dog. < as lemmas |
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