单词 | hard-upness |
释义 | > as lemmasˌhard-ˈupness ˌhard-ˈupness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > lack of money pence-lackc1400 a short purse1548 disability1624 low tide1699 embarrassment1727 impecuniosity1818 soldier's thigh1841 pennilessness1852 hard-uppishness1859 hard-upness1869 ooflessness1889 1869 Judy 7 Apr. 247/2 Fact is, you see, I'm in a state of chronic hard-upness. 1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. i. 8 My old familiar condition of hard-up-ness. 1951 E. Crankshaw Cracks in Kremlin Wall iii. 153 It is useless to think of Russia today otherwise than in terms of desperate, to us inconceivable, hard-upness. 2006 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 12 Dec. 13 Another completely new museum..which far from sharing the general hard-upness of the West Midlands appears to have more purchasing power than the National Gallery. < as lemmas |
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