slabby
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.
— The employer shall supply the sawyer and tailer-out at breast bench, workers operating goose-saws, and slabbies with suitable leather aprons for use while so employed. When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists.
形容词 adj.
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Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
— The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.
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Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
— Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.
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Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
— When waggiſh Boys the ſtunted Beeſom ply, / To rid the ſlabby Pavement; paſs not by / E’er thou haſt held their Hands; ſome heedleſs Flirt / Will over-ſpread thy Calves with ſpatt’ring Dirt.
- Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
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Rainy, wet. (of weather)
— 1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh, To Virgo, Leo turnes the time, and in a reaking sweate. He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south. And swallowes vp the slabby cloudes in fyry foming mouth.
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词源
词源 1
From slab (“mud, sludge”) + -y.
词源 2
From slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) + -y.
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