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单词 dabby
释义 dabby, a.|ˈdæbɪ|
[f. dab v.2, dab n.1 5.]
Damp, moist: (of clothes) wet and clinging to the body; flabby; flaccid.
1581J. Studley Seneca's Medea 131 b, When the stormy southerne winde with dankish dabby face Of hoary winter sendeth out the gushing showres apace.1812Sporting Mag. XL. 167 All very greasy, blousy, dabby, dusty, salt-watery, and so on.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dabby, moist, and somewhat adhesive; sticking to the skin like wet linen.1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. v, Your..overalls, which hang dabby and flabby about your legs.a1845Hood Domestic Asides iv, I should have loved to kiss her so,—(A flabby, dabby babby!).
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