smeary
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈsmɪəɹi/
美 /ˈsmɪəɹi/|/ˈsmɪɚi/|/ˈsmiɹi/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Having or showing smears.
— Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine, with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table […]
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Tending to smear or soil.
— […] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL.
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Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance.
— And are there not diuerse skauingers of draftye poëtrye in this oure age, that bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frying pan?
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词源
From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y.
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