sneakery

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Stealth; the practice of sneaking uncountable
    — But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.
形容词 adj.
  1. Sneaky. dialectal
    — Old-people jokes are sin, and tying cats' tails, and unsetting the hens, and all kind of sneakery things — " The little girl hesitated a moment, and then she added : " It seems to me, mama, that a great many sins come into people's heads and try to get committed.
  2. Involving or characteristic of sneakers.
    — People remember her descending on the Anne Beauty Salon in Mount Kisco to have her hair washed — dressed in a long black skirt that was on crooked and black stockings that had fallen down and flat sneakery kind of shoes and a straw pork-pie hat pushed back on her head under which the white hair shot out in every direction.

词形变化

more sneakery comparative most sneakery superlative more sneakery comparative most sneakery superlative

词源

词源 1
From sneak + -ery.
词源 2
From sneak + -ery (adjectival suffix).
词源 3
From sneaker + -y.
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