| 单词 | to be or look slippy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be or look slippy 2. dialect or colloquial. Of persons: Nimble, spry; sharp, quick; esp. in to be or look slippy. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > bodily movement > [adjective] > qualities of bodily movement > agile or nimble lightOE quiverOE yepec1275 taitc1300 yap13.. delivera1375 swippera1387 wight1390 nimblea1400 yarea1400 yerna1400 smitherc1475 leger1483 agilea1500 liver1530 lightsome1567 wimble1579 nimble jointed1591 nimble shifting1591 agilious1599 nimbling1599 nimble spirited1611 expedite1612 fitchanta1616 airy1642 fantastic1645 volant1650 clever1691 light-limbed1695 spry1746 swack1768 swank1786 yauld1787 deliverly1820 slippy1847 nippy1849 springe1859 pantherish1869 pantherine1890 flippant1895 loose1907 Tarzanesque1933 Tarzan-like1943 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and briskly lightOE quiverOE wight1390 yerna1400 sharpc1440 fisking?1523 skeetc1540 nimblea1547 flit1590 brisk1599 brisky1600 smart1602 whipping1602 running1662 nimble-movinga1676 snack1710 brushing1792 adance1828 slippy1847 nippy1849 smartish1921 hoppy1934 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Slippy, very quick. Var. dial. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 247 Come, be slippy. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 212 I don't know what may happen, so you'll have to look slippy. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. v. 57 Get out the lot we've just branded,..and look slippy. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow ii. 61 ‘Now my young buck-rabbit,’ he said. ‘Slippy!’ 1924 D. Moore Fen's First Term i. 4 There is a hurry... Go and change and look slippy. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xi. 178 Both of you get out of the car... And make it slippy, because I haven't got all day. < as lemmas |
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