单词 | stramineous |
释义 | stramineousadj. 1. Consisting of or relating to straw; figurative valueless. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > of or relating to straw strawy1552 straw1557 stramineous1624 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. iv. vii. 148 His sole study is for words,..not a syllable misplaced, to set out a stramineous subiect. 1641 C. Burges Another Serm. House of Commons 33 Much ado made about a supposed stramineous Miracle of Garnets face found in a straw. 1658 J. Robinson Calm Ventilation Pseudodoxia Epidemica in Endoxa ii. 123 Upon a suddain approach of the warmed Electrick, the stramineous bodies will, at first, a little recede. 1900 G. Saintsbury Hist. Crit. i. 66 He not only seems to be dealing with men of straw, but answers them with, as Luther would say, a most ‘stramineous’ argument. 2. Botany. Straw-coloured; dull pale yellow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow gull13.. flaxen?1523 palew1547 straw-coloured1585 branlie1589 straw colour1589 flaxy1634 festucine1646 sulphureous1656 flaxenish1661 butter colour1665 strawy1668 straw-yellow1794 bombycinous1796 sulphur-coloured1811 sherry-yellow1813 sulphur-yellow1816 bombasic1825 straw1842 wax-coloured1842 stramineous1845 maize-coloured1852 daffodil1855 daw1856 flax1873 sherry-coloured1875 mastic1890 sulpho-chromic1895 ochroid1897 wheat-coloured1898 sulphurous1899 sulphury1900 tea rose1900 straw-pale1922 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 204/1 Stramineous, straw-like, straw-coloured. 1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 99 Ochroleucous or stramineous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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