| 单词 |
bricky |
| 释义 |
▪ I. bricky, n. colloq.|ˈbrɪkɪ|
Also brickie.
One who works with bricks, a bricklayer, a brickfield or bricklayer's labourer.
1880D. W. Barrett Life & Work among Navvies ii. ii. 39 ‘Navvy’ and ‘bricky’ seem to them amusing specimens of wit. 1883J. Stratton Hops & Hop-p. 133 The occupations of the people are chiefly..dustmen, brickies, sweeps. 1964Economist 19 Dec. 1363/1 Something to help the brickie with corners.
▪ II. ˈbricky, a.
[f. brick n. + -y1.]
1. a. Made or built of brick. b. Full of or abounding in bricks. c. Of the colour of brick, brick-red.
1596Spenser Prothal. viii, Those bricky towres..Where..the studious Lawyers haue their bowers. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. xi. 41 Brickie rubble. 1862Spectator 29 Mar. 355 Amid the desolate bricky preparations of ‘building-lease’ ground. 1884St. James's Gaz. 10 May 6/2 The flesh-tints are a little hot and bricky.
2. Like a ‘brick’ or good fellow. slang.
1863J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange i, Old Milburn was the ‘brickiest’ master..at Elmdon.
Hence ˈbrickiness.
Mod. ‘The unrelieved brickiness of the place.’ |
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