单词 | overluscious |
释义 | overlusciousadj. Too luscious, excessively luscious. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > overly sweet wallow-sweetc1440 oversweeta1475 luscious1530 wallowish-sweet1575 overluscious1626 over-sweetened1818 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum § 624 Because Honey..will give them a Taste Overlushious. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 48 Warm imagination, and overluscious self-flattery. 1943 C. Carswell Let. 6 May in Lying Awake (1950) 218 I think when one is older Keats often seems over-luscious. 1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Feb. c7 What we just barely tolerate in this chronologically numbered, blatantly autobiographical opus [sc. Fellini's 81/2] is the shamelessly overluscious ‘Italian-ness’ of it. Derivatives ˌoverˈlusciousness n. ΚΠ 1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. x. i. 671 A certain over-lusciousness traceable in his [sc. Keats] earlier work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1626 |
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