| 单词 |
wrinkly |
| 释义 |
wrinkly, a. and n.|ˈrɪŋklɪ|
[f. wrinkle n. + -y1.]
A. adj. Full of, marked with, wrinkles; creased; puckered; crumpled.
1573Twyne æneid x. Dd iv b, Him Tryton..blew with whelked shell, Whose wrinckly wreathed flue, did fearful shril in seas outyell. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 117 The Fruit being ripe is wrinkly. 1742Shenstone School-mistr. xxix, Sour'd by age,..he..furls his wrinkly front. 1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. vii. 46 Foreheads..which are wrinkly, short and shining. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. lxxv, The Captain older and more wrinkly than she expected. 1882Sladen in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVI. 197 The whole membrane becomes very thick and wrinkly.
transf.1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xxxii, Mrs. Waule..giving occasional dry wrinkly indications of crying.
B. n. Also wrinklie. An old or middle-aged person. slang.
1972A. Birchall Living in Landscape 51 (heading) What do we do with the Wrinklies? 1976Times 31 Aug. 10/8 A Henley reader..says that her teenage daughter reserves ‘wrinklie’ for the 60-year-old generation. The reader and her husband..are known as ‘oldies’. 1980Times 28 Oct. 12/6 It's pointless to go on a CND march. They're all wrinklies. 1982Barr & York Official Sloane Ranger Hankbk. 159/3 Wrinkly n., middle-aged Sloane—between 40 and 50. 1983Church Times 11 Mar. 13/2, I am a wrinkly whose monthly cheque from the Church Commissioners is labelled ‘Diocesan Dignitary’. |
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