| 释义 |
shiny, a.|ˈʃaɪnɪ|
Also 6 shynie, 6, 9 shiney.
[f. shine n.1 + -y.]
A. adj.
a. Full of light or brightness; luminous; having a bright or glistening surface.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. vi. 6 Vpon a Sommers shynie day. 1596― Hymn Heav. Beauty 51 Affixe thine eye On that bright shynie round still moving Masse. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. ix. 3 The night Is shiny. 1699Pomfret Dies Novis. 50 Ere ruin blasted from the shiny sky. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 126 The evening being calm and shiny. 1846Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1853 II. 298/1 Sir Silas looked red and shiny as a ripe strawberry on a Snitterfield tile. 1868G. J. Whyte-Melville White Rose xlv, Umbrella, shiny boots, tall hat, go-to-meeting coat. 1874Ruskin Fors Clav. xlvi. 229 The fattest, shiniest, spottiest trout I ever saw. 1881C. Whitehead Hops 52 The lower sides of the leaves are whitish and shiny.
b. fig. Beaming, radiant. Also, apparently excellent.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xlvi, He looked round with shiny gladness. 1915Kipling Fringes of Fleet 40 ‘Why didn't you then?’ I asked. There were loads of shiny reasons. 1970Guardian 14 Dec. 4/1 The Andean Pact is Latin America's..shiniest attempt at creating a regional common market, but its gleaming paintwork is likely to take some hard knocks.
c. Comb. (parasynthetic).
1882Daily News 7 Jan. 5/4 The shiny-hatted and sealskin-clad rabble. 1898R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 23 Slugs..thin little black shiny-skinned..ones.
d. advb.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vi. 20 Goldsmithes cunning could not vnderstand To frame such subtile wire, so shinie cleare. 1903Conrad & Hueffer Romance v. ii, His yellow jaws as shiny-shaven as of old.
B. n. A shiny or bright object.
the shiny (slang), money.
1856Reade Never too Late i, We'll soon fill both pockets with the shiney in California. 1889Conan Doyle Micah Clarke 235 The silk and lace are done in these squares covered over with sacking—a thousand of Mechlin to a hundred of the shiny [i.e. the silk]. |
