释义 |
tubbish, a.|ˈtʌbɪʃ| [f. tub n. + -ish1.] Somewhat tubby; resembling a tub.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 91 Of tubbish timbrels..a hoarse and jarring sound. 1785Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes Roy. Acad. iv. 11 Men whose heads are rather tubbish, Or, drum-like, better form'd for sound than sense. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Charac. vii, He was a short, round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man. |