“drabby”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

drabby

释义

▪ I. drabby, a.¹|ˈdræbɪ|
[f. drab n.¹ + -y.]
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a drab; abounding in drabs.
1612W. Parkes Curtaine Drawer (1876) 12 The Curtaine of dishonesty..the drunken colourer of Drabby salary.1776Combe Diaboliad (1777) 12 The wiles of drabby Drury and of low St. Giles.1887Frith Autobiog. II. 81 They are drabby, shabby, dirty creatures.
▪ II. ˈdrabby, a.²
[f. drab a. + -y.]
Rather drab; drabbish. Hence ˈdrabbiness.
1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. viii, A drabby petticoat in rags.1872G. W. Dasent Three to One II. 3 While women should pass their lives in drabbiness and dowdiness.1890Spectator 25 Jan. 115/2 We do not believe in all this drabbiness,..in the modern ridicule of ceremonial.1893G. D. Leslie Lett. Marco xxxi. 209 The want of colour that accompanies a north-east wind; sky, trees and grass all looking washed out and drabby.

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