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单词 slantindicular
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slantindicularadj.n.adv.

/ˌslɑːntɪnˈdɪkjʊlə//ˌslantɪnˈdɪkjʊlə/
Forms: Also slanting-, slantendicular, slantindiclar, slantindickelar, slantendikular.
Etymology: < slanting n., after perpendicular. Originally U.S. and chiefly colloquial or humorous.
A. adj. (and n.)
a. Slanting, sloping, oblique; neither perpendicular nor horizontal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective]
embelifc1400
inclining?c1400
oblique?a1425
inclinate?1440
hieldingc1480
inclined?a1500
bias1551
overthwart1594
sidelong1598
squinty1598
skew1609
traverse1609
skewed1611
obliquous1614
squint1703
inclinated1751
slanting1768
slanted1770
slant1776
aslant1791
diagonal1796
rakish1830
slantindicular1832
slantwise1856
slaunchways1913
slanty1928
α.
1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins ii, in New Monthly Mag. I took particular care to slew the buttons at the knees well forward in a slanting-dicular direction.
1868 Hurst Johnian Mag. Feb. 341 Put your arm quite straight at an angle of about 45° with your body, (that is in a ‘slantingdicular’ direction).
β. 1832 Mem. of Nullifier iv. 37 This is sorter a slantindickelar road, stranger.1835 P. H. Nicklin Lett. Descr. Virginia Springs 30 [He] makes his bivouac among the trees..under a slantindicular shed.?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship liv. 396 Jumping off the ground all four feet at once in a slantindicular direction.figurative.c1863 U.S. Newspaper in Bright Speeches (1868) II. 239 He walked uprightly before the world, but when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular.1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 289 And he must not put himself [in the calendar] under the first saint with a slantendicular reference to the other.
b. As n., with the.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > quality of being oblique > oblique position
slantindicular1843
1843 I. F. Romer Rhone II. 305 What the Doctor termed ‘the slantingdicular’ of our position obliged me to be secured in my place by a rope.
B. adv.
= slantindicularly adv.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb]
sidelonga1398
aslanta1400
aslopec1400
embelifc1400
a-sloutc1440
sleetc1440
slant1495
obliquely1503
shoringc1503
a-swash1530
biaswise1545
biasways1556
slantingly1570
sideways1572
slantwise1573
avelinges1577
bias?1578
askant1602
slopely1605
slantinga1625
oblique1667
bias-way1702
skew1706
slantly1719
inclinably1760
slantways1828
slantindicular1831
slantindicularly1834
skewly1896
slaunchways1933
1831 Daily Louisville Public Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/3 He looked up at me slantindicler [sic], and I looked down on him slantindiclar.
1866 F. T. Buckland Curios. Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. I. 73 They [ducks] open their web feet, come down, as the Yankees say, ‘slantindicular’.
1873 C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers xxx. 202 If we could have slid into it quietly and slantendikular, if slavery could have sorter tapered out and freedom sorter tapered in, everybody could have got used to it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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