释义 |
sunshiny, a.|ˈsʌnˌʃaɪnɪ| [f. sunshine n. + -y1.] 1. Full of or characterized by sunshine: = sunny a. 1.
1649N. Hardy Div. Prosp. (1654) 15 The wettest Seed⁓time of a pious Life, shall end in the sun-shiny harvest of a peacefull Death. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1848) 67 In the Sunshiny months of Summer. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. x. (1798) II. 363 note, In warm, sun-shiny weather. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iii. ii. ⁋6, I feel disposed..to set out some sunshiny morning for the mountains. 1849H. Miller Footpr. Creat. i. (1874) 8 The long, clear, sunshiny evenings of the Orkney summer. 1854― Sch. & Schm. xiv. (1858) 305 A bright sunshiny sky. 1888Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 542 Every morrow the sun-shiny heat calls them abroad to the easy..labour of their simple lives. 2. Illumined by sunshine: = sunny a. 2.
1600Fairfax Tasso xvi. ix, Sunshinie hils, dales hid from Phœbus raies. 1802Wordsw. Stanzas in Copy Cast. Indol. 26 Retired in that sunshiny shade he lay. 1803W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIV. 487, I shut my eyes, and call up the idea of a sunshiny landscape. 1880Disraeli Endym. xlviii, It did not yet occur to Endymion that his garden could not always be sunshiny. 3. Bright as with sunshine: = sunny a. 4.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 20 The fruitfull-headed beast, amaz'd At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield, Became starke blind. Ibid. xii. 23 The..glorious light of her sunshyny face. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 113 The house had still within and without the same sunshiny cleanliness. 1841Browning Pippa Passes iii. 282 If you killed one Of those sunshiny beetles. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley iii, Her beautiful smile, and sunshiny ringlets! 4. fig. ‘Bright’, joyous: = sunny a. 5.
1782H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband ii. ii, My dear gloomy cousin, where have you purchased that sunshiny look? 1820Coleridge Lett., Convers., etc. I. vi. 27, I hope that this is a sunshiny spot in the national character. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. vi. (ed. 3) 39 His..daughter—a sunshiny young lady of eighteen. 1863Boyd Graver Thoughts C. Parson viii. 125 Childhood looks sunshiny when we cast back our glance upon it. 1893Leland Mem. I. 71 A very pleasant and wonderfully polite and sunshiny boy. |