airish造句
例句与造句
- Airish is one; Chaucer used it in the 14th century to mean " aerial "; in Scotland, it developed a sense of " cool, chilly " and is preserved in a kind of dialectic amber today in the sense of " haughty, snooty, " from one who " puts on airs ."
- The action of clipping or cutting off small pieces led to snippety, " fragmentary, scrappy, " with a temporary detour to sniptious, and finally to snippy, metaphorically cutting off pieces, thereby seeming " curt, supercilious, fault-finding, airish, " its meaning influenced by the " irritable, tart, short-tempered " sense of snappish.
- Two early citations include : 1 ) " a grave, elderly man of the race known in America as " Scots-Irish " ( 1870 ); and 2 ) " Dr . Cochran was of stately presence, of fair and florid complexion, features which testified his Scots-Irish descent " ( 1884 ) In Ulster-Scots ( or " Ullans " ), Scotch-Irish Americans are referred to as the " Scotch Airish o'Amerikey ".
- In North Carolina, meanwhile, on the Outer Banks island of Ocracoke, a place where the inhabitants once spoke a hearty dialect so rich and mysterious that visitors sometimes supposed they had stumbled onto some half-lost outpost of Elizabethan England, you could walk all day without hearing the quaint archaisms that were once central to the islanders'speech and lives _ words like fladget ( meaning a piece of something ), begombed ( to be soiled or smeared ), airish ( for a stiff breeze ), or quamish ( for queasy ).
- It's difficult to find airish in a sentence. 用airish造句挺难的
