单词 | roomthy |
释义 | roomthyadj. 1. Spacious, ample, roomy. Now rare (English regional (chiefly midlands)). Eng. Dial. Dict. (at Roomth) records this sense as still in use in Berkshire in 1903. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > roomy roomeOE largec1230 spaciousa1382 ample1483 commodious1540 roomy1549 roomthy1578 roomsome1581 roomful1588 roomthsome1599 spacy1602 amplitudinous1904 spaceful1906 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 30 With a slacke, or romthy kynde of knittyng. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 32v These bones in women [are]..much more ample, and romthy. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 6 After whom, cleere Enian in doth make, In Tamers roomthier bankes, their rest that scarcelie take. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 104 Because England was richer and roomthyer then their own Countrey. 1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 55 God will rather have his people..pent up in a corner, then roomthy, and swoln with pride. 1712 J. Hunter Spiritual Pleadings & Expostulations in T. Harrison Topica Sacra 174 We must many wayes veer about to get out to a roomthie Sea. 1726 S. Sewall Let.-bk. (1886) II. 202 He has a situation roomthy and beautifull enough to build the New-Jerusalem in. 1738 Briton Described 44 A copious Vestment, very roomthy and capacious, able to comprehend both his Arms in the single Pudding-bag of one Sleeve. 1868 Cornhill Mag. July 84 Tis a roomthy house, too. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Roomth, var. of ‘room’... Roomthy, var. of ‘roomy’. 1885 Notes & Queries 17 Jan. 46/2 The following words were heard by me among the villagers around Warwick in 1884... ‘These housen is very roomthy,’ said Mary Boney, speaking of her own cottage and the neighbours'. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 194 Roomthy, roomy... Roomth, room. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > having property of occupying space extent?a1475 extensive1624 extense1647 extended1666 bulky1674 roomthy1674 solid1690 spatial1847 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 21 Time had not been if God had not made timesome beings, nor room if he had not made roomthy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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