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单词 culmy
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culmyadj.

Forms: Also Middle English colmie, colomy.
Etymology: < culm n.1 + -y suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈculmy.
1. Blackened or begrimed with soot: = coomy adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty or soiled with soot or coal-dust
sootya1250
culmya1300
bletchy1520
sootish1582
coaly1589
collowed1606
fuliginous1606
colly1619
coomy1823
sooted1892
a1300 K. Horn 1082 He lokede him a-bute Wiþ his colmie snute.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 356 Thanne pacience parceyued of poyntes [of] his cote, Was colmy [v.r. culmy, colomy] þorw coueityse and vnkynde desyrynge.
2. Of the nature of or abounding in culm, as culmy beds or deposits.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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