单词 | adrowse |
释义 | adrowseadj. Chiefly literary. In predicative use: drowsy, drowsing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective] winkinga1000 slummy?c1225 anappedc1300 sleepya1325 heavy1382 slumberyc1386 sleepful1398 peisant1484 slumberous1495 drowsy1530 sleepish1530 sleepery1535 slumberinga1538 somnolent1547 heavy-headed1552 drowsy-headed1576 narrow-eyed1607 soporiferous1607 oscitant1625 nodding1631 Morphean1641 dormious1656 somniculous1656 dozed1659 drowsed1667 peeping1673 dozy1693 peepy1699 somniferous1798 noddy1801 dozing1820 head-nodding1832 snory1837 soporific1841 somnolescent1845 swodder1847 adrowse1848 snoozy1877 slumbersome1884 1848 W. G. Simms Charleston & her Satirists i. 17 Where cold convention still prescribes the rule, That keeps the brain adrowse, the heart at school. 1866 A. Webster Circe 41 And if my heart must always be adrowse In a hush of stagnant sunshine. 1946 Liberty 15 June 67/1 The spire of Bethany church beckoned. Still silent, still adrowse, the little structure squatted in the shade of its elms. 1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 160 Hunkered dimly on his threshold was Salīm, adrowse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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