| 单词 | butter-bright |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-bright c. Similative, with the sense ‘like butter’, as butter-bright, butter-smooth, butter-soft, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > bright > as or with specific things steel-brighta1560 eyebright1607 butter-bright1868 brass-bright1908 the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > smooth and slippery slippera1050 slibbery?c1225 slidderya1250 slidder1398 lubric1490 slid1513 slippery1551 icy?1552 slipperous1585 glib1594 gliding1594 slicked1594 glibbery1601 lubrical1602 slape1671 slithery1825 slithy1855 butter-smooth1868 slick1901 1868 G. M. Hopkins 17 July in Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 176 The sun coming out..with a butter-bright lustre. 1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery ii. v. 170 His grandfather's first gold hunter watch, butter-smooth with age. 1941 M. Seeley Chuckling Fingers vii. 92 Her butter-pale, sagging cheeks mottled with an unpleasant blue. 1960 Newsweek 2 May 31/1 A butter-bland performer with no ascertainable talent beyond the ability to mouth amiable inanities. 1980 Field & Stream Oct. 116/3 Wading through swirling pools and climbing over butter-slick boulders. 2011 C. Moran How to be Woman (2012) ix. 207 They will all be made of butter-soft leather. < as lemmas |
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