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单词 painty
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paintyadj.

Brit. /ˈpeɪnti/, U.S. /ˈpeɪn(t)i/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: paint n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < paint n. + -y suffix1.
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.
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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.
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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).
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