| 释义 |
snaily, a. (and n.)|ˈsneɪlɪ|
Also 6–7 snailie, 7 snayly, 9 snailey.
[f. snail n.1]
1. Like a snail; resembling that of a snail; snail-like. Also fig.
1596Edw. III, i. i, But I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes. 1611Cotgr., Limaceux, Snailie, Snaile⁓like. 1627Drayton Agincourt, etc. 187 These Dialls.., Whose Snayly motion of the moouing hand, (Although it goe) yet seeme to me to stand. 1928D. H. Lawrence Let. 17 Mar. (1932) 710 We must put salt on the hypocritical and snaily tails, the good public. 1979Sci. Amer. Mar. 27/2 Periwinkles, snaily bivalves and the plants and animals (such as barnacles and algae) that live on other organisms each get a detailed chapter.
2. Infested by snails; covered with the slime of snails.
1870Furnivall in Boorde's Dyetary (1870) 249 marg., Don't lie in ratty and snaily rooms. 1882Blackmore Christowell xii, The rooks began to caw,..the young lady, reading in a snaily chair, to gaze about.
3. Austr.
a. Slightly curled after the manner of a snail-shell; having horns of this description. (Cf. snail-horn 2.)
1884‘R. Boldrewood’ Melb. Mem. xvii. 123 That black bullock,..him with the snaily horn. 1891― Sydney-side Saxon viii. 133 There's a snailey Wallanbah bullock I haven't seen this two years.
b. As n. A kind of bullock characterized by having such horns.
1884‘R. Boldrewood’ Melb. Mem. ix. 68 Snaileys and poleys, old and young, coarse and fine, they were a mixed herd in every sense. |