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单词 great-sized
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great-sized
great-sized adj.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 141 A great siz'd monster of ingratitudes.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. 26 Thou great siz'd coward. View more context for this quotation
1696 Tryal & Condemnation Sir W. Parkyns 24 They were no great sized Horses.
1796 J. Donaldson Mod. Agric. III. xxi. 206 Great sized, large boned, coarse looking animals, were prevalent in all the better pastures.
1832 Edinb. Encycl. (Amer. ed.) XVI. 534/2 Even great-sized feet..are highly praised.
1919 Dixie Beekeeper (Waycross, Georgia) Sept. 4/1 Sometimes a great sized swarm is dumped into any empty hive.
2012 Hervey Bay (Queensland) Observer (Nexis) 20 Jan. 38 Some great-sized whiting off the sand banks and flats.
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great-sized
b. Attributively, with qualifying words denoting relative size, as fair-sized, full-sized, great-sized, large-sized, middle-sized.In later use also with adverbs, as fairly-sized, moderately-sized.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. 26 Thou great siz'd coward. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Poincte The middle-sized wax-candle vsed in Churches.
a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 77 When larger sized Men did stoop To enter at a narrow loop.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Cock A Dunghil Cock..should be..of a large and well-siz'd Body.
1800 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 3) xiv. 192 One plant or at most two will be enow under one full sized light.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 225 A moderate sized garden pea.
1883 F. Day Indian Fish 46 Large drag-nets,..having fairly-sized meshes.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 528/2 The average-sized bottlenose whale yields 22 cwts. of oil.
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