单词 | pretty-spoken |
释义 | > as lemmaspretty-spoken pretty-spoken adj. now rare speaking prettily or politely. ΚΠ 1617Pretty spoken [see sense 2]. 1774 R. Cumberland Note of Hand ii. iv. 33 A very civil pretty spoken gentleman, upon my conscience. 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance viii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 201/2 As pretty-spoken a woman as you need wish to talk to. 1903 Everybody's Mag. May 410/1 She was bad clean through, though she was real pretty spoken, and 'most everybody liked her. < as lemmas |
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