单词 | gristly |
释义 | gristly (once / 66401 pages) adj Gristly means rubbery or full of cartilage. The hardest part of your trip to rural China might be graciously accepting and attempting to chew the gristly meat your hosts offer you. The Old English word that spawned gristly is gristle, literally meaning "cartilage." When meat in particular is hard to chew, it's gristly. This adjective sounds like grisly (no t), which describes something that is horrifying. Although it can also be horrifying, save gristly to describe that chewy mystery meat you try and choke down to be polite. WORD FAMILYgristle: gristles, gristly USAGE EXAMPLESThere was the gristly sound of bones cracking. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) The painting’s gristly surface somehow enhances the crystalline effect. New York Times(Aug 04, 2016) A hot pot lamb special was watery and thin and came with big chunks of carrots, cabbage and gristly meat on the bone. New York Times(Apr 09, 2016) adj difficult to chew Syn cartilaginous, rubbery tough resistant to cutting or chewing |
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