thewy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Muscular; brawny.
    — The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation upon the slowly receding shore.
  2. Sinewy.

词形变化

more thewy comparative most thewy superlative

词汇关系

相关词
thewed

词源

Etymology tree
English thew
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English thewy
From thew + -y.
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