| 释义 |
sweenied, a. U.S.|ˈswiːnɪd|
Also sweeneyed, swinneyed, swyneyed.
[f. sweeny + -ed2.]
Suffering from sweeny. Hence sweenied-looking adj.
1861Harper's Mag. Aug. 421/2 The people have been fed on buncombe, while a lot of spavined, ring-boned,..swyneyed, split-headed..polleviled politicians have had their noses in the public crib. 1872Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 554 The three mules were thin, and one of them lame in the right shoulder, ‘sweenied’. 1872Borderer (Las Cruces, New Mexico) 5 Oct. 2/4 God Almighty only knows the age of 'em!—three footed, one-eyed, sweeneyed, spavined, broken-down ex-livery stable stock, ‘political hacks’, and sway-backed horses. 1960V. Williams Walk Egypt 188 Mule and tree had grown old and swinneyed together. Ibid. 240 He picked up a mule... It was a swinneyed-looking thing. |