cliffy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cliffhanger (dramatic stopping point in a story). slang
    — All your questions won't be answered in the first book. It may end on a cliffhanger that leads into book 2. It's a mild cliffy, but it's there none the less.
形容词 adj.
  1. Abounding in cliffs.
    — 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 176. There is naked Nature,—inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.
  2. Characteristic of a cliff.
    — HAG [...] 1. A rock or cliff; an abrupt, cliffy prominence.

词形变化

cliffier comparative cliffiest superlative cliffies plural

词汇关系

相关词
cliff

词源

Etymology tree
English cliff
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cliffy
From cliff + -y.
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