英语词汇“meal-man”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

meal² /mēl/

noun

Grain (now usu not wheat) or pulses ground to powder

In Scotland and Ireland, specif oatmeal

Maize flour (US)

Other material in powder form

A powdery surface-covering (chiefly botany)

transitive verb

To cover with meal

To add oatmeal to, esp to thicken (Scot)

To grind into meal

intransitive verb

Scot

To yield or be plentiful in meal

ORIGIN: OE melu, melo; Ger Mehl, Du meel meal

mealˈiness noun

mealˈy or (Scot) mealˈie adjective

Like meal in texture, powdery, floury

Containing oatmeal (Scot)

Covered with, or as if with, meal

Having a powdery surface

Speckled, flecked

Whitish, pale

mealˈ-ark noun (Scot)

A large chest for holding oatmeal

mealie pudding noun (Scot)

A white pudding

mealˈ-man or mealˈ-monger noun (obsolete)

A dealer in meal

Meal Monday noun

The second Monday in February, a St Andrews (and formerly, Edinburgh) University holiday, orig to allow the students to go home and replenish their stock of meal

meal moth noun

A small moth (Pyralis farinalis) whose larvae are a serious pest of stored grain

mealˈ-poke noun (Scot)

A bag for oatmeal, formerly esp one carried by a beggar

mealˈ-tree noun

The wayfaring tree, from its mealy leaves and shoots

mealˈworm noun

The larva of a beetle (genus Tenebrio) frequently found in granaries and flour-stores

mealy bug noun

A hothouse pest, a coccus insect with a white powdery appearance

mealˈy-mouthed /-mowdhd/ adjective

Smooth-tongued
Over-squeamish, esp in choice of words

mealy-mouthˈedness noun

meal2 /mēl/

meal² /mēl/