释义 |
▪ I. ook slang.|ʊk| [Origin unknown.] Something slimy, sticky, or otherwise unpleasant. Hence ˈooky a., slimy, viscous, repellent; also fig.
1964S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 277 He writes poems and reads them to Mama... He looks ooky when he says them. 1969Disch & Sladek Black Alice viii. 81 She had been..glad..to be here, to be anywhere so long as it marked an end, so long as she could..take a shower to wash off all this brown ook. Ibid. 85 ‘Ain't no shower,’ Clara declared flatly. ‘A bath, then? I want to wash this ook off of me.’ Ibid. xiv. 158 The milk was so warm and ooky it was like yogurt. ▪ II. ook obs. f. oak; obs. pa. tense of ache v.; Sc. f. week. |