英语词汇“gristly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

grisly / gristly / grizzly

Blood, guts, and man-eaters, oh my! Feint of heart turn back now! Grisly means relating to horror or disgust, gristly means related to gristle or cartilage, and grizzly is a big ol' bear. That can eat you.

Grisly describes blood and guts, horror movie fodder, something totally repulsive. It shows up in these blood-curdling examples:

The grisly massacre — some bodies were grotesquely mutilated and defiled — shocked the country and made global headlines. (Time)

Television video showed a heavily damaged building and a grisly scene inside, with clothing and prayer mats scattered across a blood-splattered floor. (New York Times)

Gristly is gross, too, but it means related to gristle or cartilage, that yucky hard stuff in a chicken leg, for example, or the tough chewy part in any meat. Or person. Here are some gristly examples to gnaw on:

In a ham sandwich is a cold, pink punch in the face, an angry thing marbled with gristly neglect. (Guardian)

This is surrounded by a sheath of connective tissue, at first merely membranous, later becoming cartilaginous or gristly. (John Mason Tyler)

Grizzly refers to a species of brown bear found in North America. Grizzly can also refer to the color gray or gray hair: Grizzlies get their name from the white hairs that grow in their brown coats, making them look grizzled (streaked with gray).

He makes a face like a threatened grizzly bear: mouth wide open, snout muscles flexed, teeth bared. (New York Times)

All in all, if you're going out on a bear hunt, avoid grisly, gristly, and even grizzly bears. Hunt for teddy bears instead.

WORD FAMILY

gristle: gristles, gristly

USAGE EXAMPLES

There 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

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. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS grisly / gristly / grizzly Blood, guts, and man-eaters, oh my! Feint of heart turn back now! Grisly means relating to horror or disgust, gristly means related to gristle or cartilage, and grizzly is a big ol' bear. That can eat you. Grisly describes blood and guts, horror movie fodder, something totally repulsive. It shows up in these blood-curdling examples: The grisly massacre — some bodies were grotesquely mutilated and defiled — shocked the country and made global headlines. (Time) Television video showed a heavily damaged building and a grisly scene inside, with clothing and prayer mats scattered across a blood-splattered floor. (New York Times) Gristly is gross, too, but it means related to gristle or cartilage, that yucky hard stuff in a chicken leg, for example, or the tough chewy part in any meat. Or person. Here are some gristly examples to gnaw on: In a ham sandwich is a cold, pink punch in the face, an angry thing marbled with gristly neglect. (Guardian) This is surrounded by a sheath of connective tissue, at first merely membranous, later becoming cartilaginous or gristly. (John Mason Tyler) Grizzly refers to a species of brown bear found in North America. Grizzly can also refer to the color gray or gray hair: Grizzlies get their name from the white hairs that grow in their brown coats, making them look grizzled (streaked with gray). He makes a face like a threatened grizzly bear: mouth wide open, snout muscles flexed, teeth bared. (New York Times) All in all, if you're going out on a bear hunt, avoid grisly, gristly, and even grizzly bears. Hunt for teddy bears instead. WORD FAMILY gristle: gristles, gristly USAGE EXAMPLES There 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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