marshmallowy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.
    — An ice-cube crusher for $1, a cake slicer, something like a miniature rake, to cut smoothly through the marshmallowiest frosting without a leak, for $1, […] were just a few I put on my list.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.; Soft and fluffy.
  3. Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating.
    — “It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”
  4. Vacuous.
    — The spirit of Oprah is haunting yet another session of Sex Week. Once again, a basically tawdry event has come packaged in all kinds of marshmallowy language about self-understanding and self-acceptance.

词形变化

marshmallowier comparative marshmallowiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
marshmallowiness

词源

From marshmallow + -y.
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