| 单词 | hip-deep |
| 释义 | > as lemmaship-deep C2. Locative, forming adjectives and adverbs, as hip-deep, hip-high. ΚΠ 1773 Morning Chron. 4 Mar. Suppose an iron ballustrade, handsomely bowed, was annexed, hip high. 1799 S. Murray Descr. Part Scotl. xi. in Compan. Scotl., Lakes & Craven 193 I was placed upon a shelty, which was led through the Gauer river by an Highland-man, hip deep. 1864 Leeds Intelligencer 5 Nov. 3/4 They are hip high in vegetable rankness and ruin. 1897 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 507 My carriers..were hip-deep in the grass. 1913 E. Rath Exercises on Apparatus 3 Executed like in standing..with hands grasping the apparatus hip high. 1951 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Register-News 3 Mar. 1/7 Hip-deep snow covered areas in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. 1993 J. E. Walsh Shadows Rise 1 Inside.., was a rude, hip-high counter backed by a row of shelves. 2006 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) July 28/2 Most of our progress is made in lining the canoes through the whitewater, hip-deep in frothing glacier-melt. < as lemmas |
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