“scroungy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

scroungy

释义

scroungy, a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈskraʊndʒɪ|
[f. scrounge v.¹ + -y¹.]
Shabby or dirty in appearance; sordid, disreputable; more generally, of poor quality, inferior.
1949(heard by Prof. A. L. Hench, Univ. of Virginia, and glossed as ‘disreputable’: 22 Oct.).1959‘E. McBain’ 'Til Death (1961) xiii. 153 I'll continue commuting to a scroungy squadroom in perhaps the world's worst neighborhood.1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 453/2 Scroungy,..bad; inferior; terrible; usu. as a result of being very cheap.1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) i. 35 One sunburned, scroungy unit of force preserving the Sheik and the oil money against any threat from east of the English Channel.1977Zigzag Mar. 4/2 They all walk around together, the three of them, real grubby, kind of scroungy guys.1981G. Winokur Depression p. v, I was fascinated with the scroungy, low life diseases..in that clinic.

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