| 单词 | slow-tongued |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslow-tongued a. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘having or characterized by a slow or sluggish ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in slow-gaited, slow-hearted, slow-minded, slow-motioned, slow-tongued, slow-winged, etc.; also forming derived nouns, as in slow-heartedness, slow-mindedness, etc.See also slow-bellied adj., slow-footed adj., slow-witted adj. ΚΠ 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. iv. f. viv I am slowe mouthed and slowe tongued. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xlii. 260 If the maister be verie sharp witted..and the boy slowheaded. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F Proue it when you will, you slow spirited Saturnists. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 207 Oh slow-wing'd Turtle, shal a buzard take thee? a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 394 The frequent rebukes of their slow-heartedness. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1731/4 A thin Melancholy Man,..slow Speeched. 1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 28 To convince the slow-hearted and distrustful World. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3136/4 A very strong bay Mare, 8 years old,..slow mettled. 1744 M. Akenside On leaving Holland in Odes 23 The slow-eyed fathers of the land. 1856 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 10 June (1917) I. 33 They are either excessively slow motioned or very lazy. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. ix. 187 She..sauntered back behind the patient slow-gaited creatures. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 91 It is a quakerish thing.., Tame and slow-blooded. 1935 R. Kipling Two Forewords 16 The seller..berated, for their slow-mindedness, men who, but for being too much urged to buy, would have bought. 1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen x. 285 Progress for him was an incalculable and slow-motioned operation. 1989 California Sept. 56/2 ‘Few cities have places like the Square,’ explains the quick-witted, slow-armed second baseman. 1995 G. Burn Fullalove (2004) vi. 159 Myc Doohan..is..doing slow-brained calculations on a piece of scrap paper. < as lemmas |
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