英语词汇“clinging”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

clinging

释义

▪ I. clinging, vbl. n.|ˈklɪŋɪŋ|
[f. cling v.¹ + -ing¹.]
1. The action of the vb. cling.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 3 b, The clinging of the sayd Lyon hys tayle between hys legges.1678Rymer Trag. Last Age 43 These waylings, clingings, and beseechings.1884Freeman in Manch. Guard. 22 Sept., An Englishman's natural clingings to a long and unbroken political past.
†2. = clinching (of nails). Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 323 Searching the hoof first with a hammer by knocking upon every clinging.
▪ II. ˈclinging, ppl. a.
That clings; cleaving.
a1763Shenstone Poems Wks. 1764 I. 106 The defenceless train Of clinging infants.1810Southey Kehama iii. x, A clinging curse.
b. said of garments fitting close to the body.
1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 403/1 The garments of the women were the reverse of ‘clinging’.1884E. P. Roe Ibid. June 97/1 Dressed in some light clinging fabric.
Hence clingingly adv.; clingingness.
1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune I. 118 Val..nestled clingingly by his side.1869Contemp. Rev. XII. 126 The domestic clingingness and tender dependency.

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