单词 | stubbed |
释义 | stubbedadj. 1. a. Of trees: Cut down to a stub; cut off near the ground; also, deprived of branches or pollarded. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective] > pruned or lopped doddedc1440 lopped1570 stubbed1575 polled1587 pollard1638 putatory1656 sneddedc1700 topped1712 pollarded?1790 lopping1795 spurring-in1829 summer-pruned1830 trunkless1897 1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Posies (1907) 343 Like a stubbed thorne. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I After him followed the knight of the Owle, whose armor was a stubd tree ouergrowen with iuie. 1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 128 A paine he in his Head-peece feeles, Against a stubbed Tree he reeles. 1793 W. Blake Amer. 83 They cannot bring the stubbèd oak to overgrow the hills. a1821 J. Keats Otho iii. i, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 152 What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a throng'd tavern,—and these stubbed trees For old serge hangings? 1856 C. Kingsley Colonization of Paraguay in Misc. (1860) II. 16 The trunk looking like an old stubbed oak. b. Of ground: Having the stubs removed; grubbed up. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [adjective] > cleared stubbed1573 balled1591 stumpless1839 cleared1856 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31 In stubbed plot, fill hole with clot. 2. a. Short and thick, stumpy. ? Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective] stoba1500 stubbeda1529 stubbleda1529 strunt1577 stumpy1600 chubby1611 stumpish1618 chubbed1674 squat1684 chubbish1685 chub1688 squabbed1694 cloddy1712 clavellated1713 pluggy1720 squab1723 puddy1747 tubbish1786 stunt1788 bunting1808–25 dumpy1808 clumpy1820 dubby1825 stubby1831 chunky1833 snubbed1835 tubby1835 pudgy1862 squatty1881 squidgy1891 a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 422 Her legges..were sturdy and stubbed. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. F6v Their [sc. ostriches] heads are couered all with small stubbed feathers. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 12 The Tartar is a stubbed squat fellow, hard bred, and such are their horses. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 164 Three years you must forbear to cut, that the plant may be strong, not stubbed. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Uuu/1 Stubbed, short and well set, trapu, membru. A stubbed Fellow, un Trapu. 1697 E. Lhuyd Let. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 464 With Bills more stubbed and bigger than that of a Bull-finch. 1769 T. Gray Jrnl. 13 Oct. in Corr. (1971) III. 1107 The rock..rises perpendicular with stubbed yew-trees & shrubs, staring from its side. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 254 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Trimming does thicken the surface of the hedge by causing a stubbed, stooling form of growth. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 206 A short, thick, stubbed, ungainly and ungraceful form. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 71 Memnon himself keeps home, attended on But by a stubbed Boy. 1722 Hist. & Antiq. Glastonbury Author's Pref. n 4 (note) Saunders must be a stubbed Boy, if not a Man, at the Dissolution of Abbeys. 3. Reduced to a stub; worn down to a stub; (of hair) cut close to the skin, stubbly. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn down to a stump or stub stump1624 stubbed1627 stunted1716 stumpy1794 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > cut short shornc1050 polleda1325 ydoddeda1400 rounded?a1439 nottedc1440 gallows-rounded1567 stubbed1627 well-cropped1805 well-shaven1842 bobbed1918 Eton-cropped1925 crew-cropped1938 crew cut1940 urchin cut1951 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 463 Thy new broome, that now sweepeth cleane all discontents from thee, will soone grow stubbed. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vii. 84 She did pull out seven teeth out of a fellowes head that was hang'd with a paire of pincers, such as you pull out stubbed haires withall. 1762 C. Churchill Ghost ii. 34 Hark! something scratches round the room! A Cat, a Rat, a stubb'd Birch-broom. 1802 Trans. Soc. Arts 20 172 Effectually done..by a stubbed birch broom. 4. a. Blunted at the point. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > bluntness > [adjective] > made blunt rabattued1562 rebated1574 stubbed1616 blunted1697 stubby1843 1616 B. Jonson Oberon 113 in Wks. I To spight the coy Nymphes scornes, Hang vpon our stubbed hornes, Garlands, ribbands and fine poesies. 1675 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (ed. 2) App. 26 Instead of the Rolls of Paper they make use of Stubbed Pencils; and some of them are stuffed with Cotton, and some others with Bombast. 1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue i, in Misc. III. 35 While each with stubbed Knife remov'd the Roots That rais'd between the Stones their daily Shoots. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 306 Stubbed or Stubby, blunt-pointed, as the broad nib of a pen, thick, short. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iii. 29 The short, stubbed blade of his jackknife. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility unfeelingc1000 mis-feelinga1382 stonishc1450 unpainfulc1450 obtuse1509 sprightlessa1522 insensate1553 senseless1560 soulless1568 dull-esprited1591 impassible1592 bluntie1598 impenetrable1600 stockish1600 stolidc1600 incapable1601 stupid1605 tasteless1605 unsensitive1610 unexalted1611 insensible1617 unsensible1619 languid1622 immovable1639 dead-hearted1642 sterile1642 resupine1643 unaffectionate1645 iron-bound1648 resentlessa1649 torpid1656 torpulent1657 impassive1699 unreceptive1722 hebete1743 apathetic1744 stubbed1744 gustless1766 unresponsive1768 unsusceptible1779 tideless-blooded1786 unaffectioned1788 inaccessible1796 hebetudinous1820 unimpressible1828 insensitive1834 apathetical1835 non-sensitive1836 blunt-hearted1845 irreceptive1846 unreceptant1846 unimpressionable1847 anaesthetic1860 insentient1860 hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862 unsqueamish1893 tone-deaf1894 unget-at-able1897 facty1901 zombie1937 pegamoid1957 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §105 The hardness of stubbed vulgar constitutions. 5. Abounding in stubs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > abounding in stumps stubbed1855 1855 R. Browning Childe Roland xxv Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. 1898 M. Hewlett Forest Lovers vi He urged his horse over the stubbed heath. 6. Chiefly, of a toe: injured by being struck against something. Cf. stub v.1 9a originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > bruised bruiseda1400 surbateda1425 pounced?a1563 black and blue1568 squat1600 mauled1690 mourning1709 contused1761 stubbed1890 stone-bruised1909 1890 Brighton (Colorado) Reg. 11 Jan. 4/1 Montana is the ‘stubbed-toe State’. 1958 J. G. MacGregor North-West of 16 viii. 111 I don't suppose a city boy, or even a modern farm boy, knows what a stubbed toe is. Maybe that's just as well, because they were most painful. 1977 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 4/5 None of the hair-raising stunts he performs for his TV series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em led to any injury greater than a stubbed finger. 1978 B. Bainbridge Young Adolf xviii. 101 Testily he kicked at the..wood... Recoiling, he curled his stubbed toes within his boot. 7. stubbed-out: of a cigarette, extinguished by being pressed against a hard object. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [adjective] > extinguished (of cigarette) stubbed-out1975 1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xxv. 218 A single stubbed out Stuyvesant in the ashtray. 1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Feb. 13/4 No other writer since Noël Coward can have so constantly punctuated dialogue and action with a ritual pattern of lighting-up, inhalation, smoke-rings, and stubbed-out butts. Derivatives ˈstubbedness n. ‘a being short and thick’. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 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