| 单词 | preen |
| 释义 | preen I. 1. dialect chiefly Britain a. < needles and preens > b. 2. dialect chiefly Britain < he never cared a preen for her — G.O.Brown > II. chiefly Scotland III. transitive verb 1. < pigeons preened themselves and cooed softly — D.H.Lawrence > < a cat preens its fur > 2. < he preened back his hair, which lay slick and thin on his head — D.C.Loughlin > 3. < preened himself on having put across another sharp deal — David Walden > < preened himself upon his sapience — Amy Lowell > intransitive verb 1. 2. < preened as he addressed the convention opening — Newsweek > < she preened, approving her adolescence — Virginia Woolf > |
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