单词 | sprucely |
释义 | sprucelyadv. In a spruce manner; smartly, trimly, neatly, attractively. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adverb] > tidily trimly1534 neatly1581 sprucely1598 trigly1728 gash1806 tidily1870 the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adverb] > neatly or trimly feata1525 pickedlya1528 trimly1534 trim1544 netly1564 neata1578 neatly1577 smugly?1578 deftly1579 neatly1581 trickly1581 trick1594 sprucely1598 spruce?1605 comptly1611 snogly1615 spruntly1631 queemly1703 snodly1721 trigly1728 tidilya1756 natty1810 spick and span1815 tightly1825 featly1834 jemmily1837 nattily1849 dapperly1858 snappily1936 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres iii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 51 Vnder that fayre Ruffe so sprucely set Appeares a fall, a falling-band forsooth. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 186 We see men..who wast all their tyme..in striuing to haue their stockings sprucely put on. 1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 179 Every Bastion is sprucely kept and covered within with green Turf. 1719 tr. Erasmus Pope Julius II (London ed.) 14 What is the meaning of those youthful effeminate Attendants of yours, so sprucely deck'd and trim'd up? 1788 Amicable Quixote II. xvi. 158 Jewels, feathers, ribbands too obviously or too sprucely displayed..were all prohibited by this rigid censor of female superiority. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 82 As you walk forth freshly and sprucely dressed. 1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims 44 A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him. 1941 Washington (Washington State Hist. Soc.) iii. 371 Below the hill the buildings are sprucely painted. 1971 Times 27 Nov. 11/8 The orchestral music is sprucely played. 2002 T. Cox Nice Jumper (2003) 86 He was always sprucely dressed—one of the few kids who wore trousers, not jeans, on Non-uniform Day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1598 |
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