英语词汇“rough、dry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

rough-dry

释义

ˈrough-dry, v.
[rough adv.]
trans. To dry (clothes) without smoothing or ironing. Now more generally, to dry roughly or imperfectly.
1837Dickens Pickw. xvii, The process of being washed in the night-air, and rough-dried in a close closet.1978P. Harcourt Agents of Influence xii. 146 She..continued to rough-dry her hair on the towel.
Hence ˈrough-dried ppl. a., ˈrough-dry a.
1856Mrs. Stowe Dred I. 181 Clothes look rough-dry, as if they had been pulled out of a bag.1865M. Eyre Lady's Walks S. of France i. 8 The articles..are neither starched nor ironed, but simply sent home rough dry.1890Cent. Dict., Rough-dry, dry but not smoothed or ironed: as, rough-dry clothes.1900Kipling in Daily Express 12 June 4/5 Sweating men, rough-dried sweating horses with wisps of precious forage.1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 222/1 He was born with this rough-dried hair.1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands i. 8 Service..had lost its starch and its high glaze. It had become what housewives call rough-dried.

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