gunpowderousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

gunpowder +‎ -ous

形容詞

gunpowderous (comparative more gunpowderous, superlative most gunpowderous)

1. Resembling or characteristic of gunpowder.
   • 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

     [S]till his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort, that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

   • 1966, David Benedictus, This Animal is Mischievous (page 54)

     I and my companions were seated, but as I tried to adopt the cross-legged posture of the other guests, a gunpowderous crack from the joints of one of my knees broke, I thought, the spell of the séance rather.

   • 1990, Simon Louvish, The Last Trump of Avram Blok (page 294)

     Asher and Blok rushed through the cordite-reeking jacaranda trees, past the gunpowderous pines, the saltpetre palms, and the ammonia-scented azaleas, […]