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单词 foreign-sounding
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foreign-sounding
c. With present participles, forming adjectives in which foreign expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in foreign-looking, foreign-sounding, etc.
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1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North ii. 249 Constantine..cites some foreign sounding words [Ger. einige fremdlautende Worte].
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) IV. 213 A dark, sallow, foreign-looking personage.
1904 Canad. Grocer 19 Feb. 12/1 When we had a foreign tasting fritter I supposed it to be some Chinese bean paste, or perhaps a fried oyster.
1921 B. Ruck Arrant Rover (U.S. ed.) x. 151 Something swathed and wound about in rolls of foreign-smelling muslin.
1989 P. Farmer Thicker than Water (1991) xi. 151 I'd wondered how anyone so weird and dark and foreign-looking could be my cousin in the first place.
2020 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Ontario ed.) p7 He suffered..at the hands of Canadian schoolchildren who made fun of his foreign-sounding name.
extracted from foreignadj.n.2adv.
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