scoury

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Showery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.
    — '... scoury (tempestuous) night.'
  2. Suffering from scouring (diarrhea).
    — ... scoury calves sometimes die. As with so many livestock disorders, prevention is the name of the game. At one time every calf I brought on the farm caught a wicked brand of scours. Evidently, previously purchased baby bovines had[…]
  3. Shabby.
    — ... [the] scoury-looking fellow I saw you speaking to at the bridge-end that day of our Sacrament was one of that kind of folk?

词源

词源 1
From a dialectal sense of scour, "rain shower", from Old Norse skúr (“shower”), + -y.
词源 2
From scour (“suffer diarrhea”) + -y.
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