| 单词 | big-sounding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig-sounding big-sounding adj. ΚΠ 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iii. 7 There if he can with termes Italianate, Big-sounding sentences, and words of state, Faire patch me vp his pure Iambick verse, He rauishes the gazing Scaffolders. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 249 He thought the expression was too flat, and there too full of big-sounding, bum-baste words, containing more syllables, than sense, and fuller of noise, than reason. 1893 T. H. Huxley Coll. Ess. I. 379 Big-sounding but empty phrases may be the making of the stump-orator. 1979 Black Perspective in Music 7 188 When I heard Paul Robeson, I was very impressed because he had that big-sounding, low voice. 2007 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 27 Sept. A comparatively lush, organic, big-sounding record, full of raucous pub-wreckers. < as lemmas |
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