单词 | delicious-smelling |
释义 | > as lemmasdelicious-smelling With present participles, forming adjectives in which delicious expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in delicious-looking, delicious-smelling, etc. ΚΠ 1797 ‘Amator Veritatis’ Chorismos Aletheias 50 If one of these delicious looking apples be touched, it instantaneously becomes most offensive sulphureous dust. 1874 I. M. Alden & I. H. Foster Mod. Prophets 282 The coffee-pot glistened while it sent up puffs of delicious smelling steam. 1909 C. S. Osborn Andean Land I. ii. 37 That strange fruit of Sumatra, the evil-smelling but delicious-tasting durian. 1950 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 1 Apr. 6/1 A delicious-seeming piece of chocolate. 2013 M. March Finding Colin Firth (large print ed.) xviii. 322 I'd love to treat you to dessert, perhaps a slice of that delicious-looking blackberry pie on the counter. < as lemmas |
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