单词 | smeary |
释义 | smearyadj. 1. Marked or characterized by smears; showing smears or dirty marks; bedaubed, begrimed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > smeared smearya1529 smutchy1579 smeared1584 slubbered1588 besmeared1592 smudged1624 smudgy1859 beslubbered1863 a1529 J. Skelton Ware the Hauke (1843) 324 Masyd, wytles, smery smyth, Hampar with your hammer vpon thy styth. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 52 You shal be so gaunted in hunger, That youre smeary tabils you wyl most greedelye swallow. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1769 The said place being all black, smeerie, and foule therewith. 1844 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. 29 710 The Wilkie-like pictures of Mr. Fraser, with their peculiar smeary manner. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. iv. 62 A smeary newspaper long out of date. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts I. 226 A crying woman whose eyes were actually growing smeary whilst she wept. 2. Tending to smear or soil; of a greasy or unctuous nature. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > fatty or greasy fatc1000 fattya1398 tallowyc1440 seamya1529 tallowish1552 smeary1582 fattish1589 greasy1592 pinguedinous1599 enseamed1604 pingui-substance1621 pinguid1635 axungious1658 pinguious1705 sevous1726 suety1730 sebaceous1783 pinguitudinous1827 crassy1858 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > smeared > smearing smeary1582 blotting1828 blurring1851 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiv That bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frynig pan. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 35 b/1 Her sweat is fattye, axungiouse, and smearye. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 76 Trane-Oyl..[makes the ink] dull, smeary and unpleasant to the Eye. 1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert iii A smeary foam works o'er my grinding jaws. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 1015 The smeary Wax the bright'ning Blaze supplies. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 317 If again exposed to the air, it becomes smeary, moist, and fluid. 1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 9 Mouldering when dry; smeary when wet. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 252 A good housekeeper who does not like to set her butter on the table in a smeary state, keeps it in summer on ice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1529 |
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