| 单词 | slack-jawed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslack-jawed a. Parasynthetic adjectives, as slack-backed, slack-fingered, slack-haired, slack-hammed, slack-handed, slack-jawed, slack-mouthed, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > open-mouthed with open mouth1548 open-mouthed?1606 slack-jawed1642 slack-mouthed1642 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > open-mouthed yawningc890 galpingc1386 open-mouthed?1533 gaping1594 wide-mouth?c1599 mouthed1609 slack-jawed1642 slack-mouthed1642 open-mouth1702 wide-mouthed1776 gapish1850 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 301 Debaucht and slacke hayred companions. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 20 O, there's a monstrous league between these soft And slack-ham'd pathicks! 1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized i. i. 22 What, now slack handed, when so neer to my everlasting rest! 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Slag A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an affront. 1822 G. W. Manby Voy. Greenland 130 In what are called slack-backed fish. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vi. 113 This time if I let you slip, may I be stamped slack-fingered! 1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ For White Rose Arno (U.K. ed.) 25 A slack-lipped specimen of the young blood of the period. 1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 76 Our colonel used to send for slack-jawed down-country men who talked too much. 1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 44 Wild-eyed and considerably slack-mouthed. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 32 He stood for perhaps ten seconds, slackjawed with amazed and incredulous comprehension. 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 42 I continued to gaze at Sonya with slack-mouthed adoration. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends ii. iii. 170 The people were Catholics nearly to a person, and they stared slack-jawed at the line of nuns. < as lemmas |
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