单词 | slabbiness |
释义 | slabbinessn. The quality, condition, or state of being slabby; wetness; sloppiness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] slabbiness1555 creaminess1688 sloppiness1727 semifluidity1807 squishiness1929 1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 280 All iorneys incumbered with continuall waters and myrie slabbynesse. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 251 Alexander got on land, where he could hardly stand, for the slabbinesse of the ground. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 183 The Way also was here very wearysom thorow Dirt and Slabbiness . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1555 |
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