| 释义 |
lunk colloq. (orig. U.S.).|lʌŋk|
[Abbrev. of lunkhead.]
A slow-witted, unintelligent person.
1867Harper's Weekly 25 May 330/2 They're tigers, you thick-headed lunk. 1907J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster iv. 70 He's dead all right... He might ha' known..going alone among them Indians... None but a red-headed runt'd have been such a lunk as to try it. 1931F. Hurst Back St. ii. xxvi. 231 What a lunk he continued to be! 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. vii. 229 Most artists have a great lunk of a man they trail around with them, they never know what to do with him, he gets drunk, he gets into trouble. 1975New Yorker 24 Mar. 93/3 He looks incredulous, as if he couldn't figure out how he got turned into such a lunk. |