“grouty”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

grouty

释义

▪ I. grouty, a.¹ dial.|ˈgraʊtɪ|
[f. grout n.¹ + -y¹.]
a. Muddy, dirty.
b. Of the sky, weather: Thundery.
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. ii. 74 Many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty, black, stinking Water.1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Grouty, soiled, dirty-looking, begrimed.1876Whitby Gloss., Grouty, full of sediment.1893Wiltsh. Gloss., Grouty, of the sky, thundering, threatening rain. It looks ‘ter'ble grouty’ in summer when thunder clouds are coming up.
▪ II. grouty, a.² U.S.|ˈgraʊtɪ|
[f. grout v.³ + -y¹]
Sulky, cross, ill-tempered. Hence ˈgroutiness.
1836Lowell Lett. (1894) I. i. 11 Been quite ‘grouty’ all the vacation: ‘black as Erebus’.1881Pennsylv. Sch. Jrnl. XXXII. 57 As grouty and glum as if he pondered the wrongs of his race for the last two centuries.1895Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 23 May 9/4 He can take a passenger's groutiness for what it is worth.

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