polyphloisbic
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering.
— 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?
词源
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).
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