释义 |
girthgirth /ɡɜːθ $ ɡɜːrθ/ noun [countable]  girthOrigin: 1300-1400 Old Norse gjörth - She is a woman of substantial girth.
- the enormous girth of a redwood tree's trunk
- His yellow hair flopped into his blue eyes as he did up her girths for her.
- I was to behave like a kind of white-skinned rani to whom such things as tightening girths and punishing dromedaries were unthinkable.
- It was as if he had more substance to him, like spiritual girth.
- Neither are they worried by sizing that implies the clothes might belong to men of more ample girth.
- She was about sixteen the first time, closer to twenty the next, and the years had not reduced her girth.
- Tallboy was confronted by a very tall man of considerable girth who looked like a retired all-in wrestler.
- The bass measured 30 inches long and had a 25-inch girth.
- The personal best pike measured a massive 45 inches with a girth of 24 inches and was returned alive.
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