单词 | whippiness |
释义 | whippinessn. Pliable quality; flexibility. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] pliantnessa1398 bowablenessc1475 limberness1565 bowingness1580 pliableness1581 suppleness1584 flexibility1616 pliancy1632 flexure1651 flexility1660 pliability1725 compliancy1793 facility1853 yieldiness1857 whippiness1881 bonelessness1928 1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 70 Some successful anglers use the two extremes of whippiness and stiffness [in fly-rods]. 1913 W. E. Dommett Motor Car Mech. 130 This control has the objection..that the gear box has to be long with possible whippiness of the shafting. 1931 F. Greenslet in H. Sheringham & J. C. Moore Bk. Fly-rod v. 44 A 12-foot four-piece fly-rod of a really delightful soft whippiness. 1975 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 8/1 All you have to do is to choose a branch of sufficient whippiness to be pulled down to the ground and fixed there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1881 |
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