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单词 dabby
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dabbyadj.

/ˈdabi/
Etymology: < dab v.2, dab n.1 5.
Damp, moist: (of clothes) wet and clinging to the body; flabby; flaccid.
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1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea (new ed.) iii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 131v When the stormy southerne winde with dankish dabby face Of hoary winter sendeth out the gushing showres apace.
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 167 All very greasy, blousy, dabby, dusty, salt-watery, and so on.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Dabby, moist, and somewhat adhesive; sticking to the skin like wet linen.
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. v. 113 Your..overalls, which hang dabby and flabby about your legs.
a1845 T. Hood Domest. Asides iv I should have loved to kiss her so,—(A flabby, dabby babby!).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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