单词 | bumfly |
释义 | bumflyadj. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of clothing, fabric, etc.: rumpled, puckered; bulging. Of a person: wearing such clothing; untidy in appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased > crumpled or rumpled crumpled1535 rumpled1624 rumply1794 scrumpled1813 screwed-up1817 bumfly1887 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid iii. iv. 258 He lookit..at the Abbot himsel',—awfu' kin' o' bumfly, and like a chaff bed tied in the middle. 1912 F. E. Crichton Tinker's Hollow vii. 74 I hate this dress... It's so—so bumfly! 1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's ii. 13 Mother made us knitted petticoats... We looked all bumfly in them. 2010 @ItsLaurenAlissa 21 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Sept. 2018) I never knew I was going so never got a new dress, it's just a black lacy dress and all bumfly at the bottom? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1887 |
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