pitchy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  2. Off pitch; out of tune.
    — […] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
  3. Very dark black; pitch-black.
    — Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!

词形变化

pitchier comparative pitchiest superlative pitchier comparative pitchiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
pitchily pitchiness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English pitch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English pitchy
From pitch + -y.
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