单词 | slack-twisted |
释义 | slack-twistedadj. Of a rope: Not tightly twisted. Hence figurative, of a loose, unsatisfactory character; lazy, inactive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] sweerc725 foridledc1230 idlea1300 faintc1325 recrayed1340 slewful1340 nicea1398 sleuthya1400 delicate?c1400 sleuthfulc1400 slothfulc1400 sloth1412 lurdanc1480 luskinga1500 luskish15.. droning1509 bumbard?a1513 slottery1513 desidiousa1540 lazy1549 slovening1549 truanta1550 sleuth1567 litherly1573 truantly1579 dronish1580 lubberly1580 truant-like1583 shiftless1584 sluggard1594 fat1598 lusky1604 sweatless1606 clumse1611 easeful1611 loselly1611 do-littlea1613 sluggardisha1627 pigritious1638 drony1653 murcid1656 thokisha1682 shammockinga1704 indolent1710 huddroun1721 nothing-doing1724 desidiose1727 lusk1775 slack-twisted1794 sweert1817 bone-lazya1825 lurgy1828 straight-backed1830 do-nothing1832 slobbish1833 bone idle1836 slouch1837 lotophagous1841 shammocky1841 bein1847 thoky1847 lotus-eating1852 fainéant1855 sluggardly1865 lazy-boned1875 do-naught1879 easy-going1879 lazyish1892 slobbed1962 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 56 Slack-laid means slack-twisted. 1802 Sporting Mag. 20 292 The slack-twisted operations of a certain pack of hounds. 1887 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries 12 16 One Dr. Barlow, a notable trimmer even in those slack-twisted times. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. v. 61 Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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