单词 | painty |
释义 | paintyadj. 1. Art. Of a picture: overcharged with paint; in which the paint is obtrusive. Also applied to the painter of a picture, or its execution. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles plangent1666 dry1695 sticky1753 flat1755 spotty1798 touchy1809 definitive1815 edgy1825 painty1827 scratchy1827 unideal1838 tinglish1855 generalist1858 tinny1877 Christmas-cardy1883 tinty1883 surfacy1887 chocolate box1892 chocolate-boxy1894 Christmas card1895 juicy1897 candy box1898 pastose1901 busy1909 pompier1914 posterish1914 painterly1932 X-ray1940 illusional1942 all-over1948 figurative1960 hard-edge1961 1827 C. Lamb Let. Feb. (1935) III. 73 I think the face and bearing of [Haydon's] Bucephalus-tamer very noble, his flesh too effeminate or painty. 1870 Athenæum 21 May 680 Being rather opaque, not to say painty, in some of its less important parts. 1899 Cent. Mag. Feb. 579/2 His line was heavy,..and his surfaces were rough and ‘painty’. 1923 R. J. Cortissoz Amer. Artists xi. 174 Too often Luks seems content with a garish crudity, or is merely painty. 1947 R. Todd R. & S. Redgrave's Cent. Brit. Painters (new ed.) vii. 81 This very facility led him to a painty and mechanical execution which repels the spectator. 2. gen. Exhibiting much paint; covered or marked with paint; (of a mark, etc.) made with paint. Also: reminiscent or characteristic of paint. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [adjective] > relating to paint oiled1658 painty1857 1857 Harper's Mag. July 206/2 Miss Quigley said it [sc. the cottage] was new and painty, and stuck up. 1873 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 292 The big room is bare and painty. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 181 Do you mind this painty smell? 1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime v. 59 This student has dropped a tube of blue paint and then trodden on it..leaving a blue painty trail. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. c1/1 The winged bean seed lacks the beany, painty flavor characteristic of soybeans. 1998 Homes & Ideas Mar. (Suppl.) 27/4 She's got so keen on painting that I'm worried I'll go in there one day and find lots of painty handprints all around the bed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1827 |
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