turtleish

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or reminiscent of turtles.
    — Imagining the Negro as filth, his mouth as symbolizing the female genital, it is worth remarking how many correspondences relate those thoughts to the poem about the mud turtle (a creature of chiefly Southern associations anyhow, like that turtleish-looking white TV editorialist in Virginia, who L said was called The Mouth of the South).
  2. Resembling or reminiscent of turtles.; Slow
    — Advanced burlesque, even, wouldn't have him for a house manager; why should the very real business of photodrama tolerate his turtleish inefficiency?

词形变化

more turtleish comparative most turtleish superlative turtlish alternative

词源

From turtle + -ish. Piecewise doublet of turtlesque.
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