“vinegary”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

vinegary

释义

vinegary, a.|ˈvɪnɪgərɪ|
[f. vinegar n. + -y¹.]
Resembling vinegar; sour like vinegar. Chiefly fig.
1730Bailey (fol.), Acetous, Vinegary, or being something like Vinegar.1848Dickens Dombey xxxi, A vinegary face has Mrs. Miff.1850Kingsley A. Locke (1876) II. 33 So you'll just leave alone that vinegary, soul-destroying trash.1870Friswell Mod. Men Lett. viii. 143 Commonplace bishops and vinegary bishops' wives.1879M. E. Braddon Vixen iii, This is one of Miss Skipwith's servants,..rather a vinegary personage.
Comb.1885Advance (Chicago) 6 Aug. 509/3 A vinegary visaged lady.1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 116 The only person who was in the house was a vinegary-looking woman, who told me that I could not stay.

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