slithyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: slīʹthē, IPA: /ˈslaɪði/

形容詞

slithy (comparative slithier, superlative slithiest)

1. lithe and slimy or slithery.

   The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.

   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:

     'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.

   • 1906, Good Housekeeping, volume 43, page 130:

     She wanted to wear these slithy, snaky gowns you see in the pictures in the hallways of the $3 photographers.

   • 1914, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan:

     Such a carriage is known as “an araba,” or alternatively as an yaili—a name which is probably onomatopœic, for it is about the “slithiest” thing that runs on wheels.

   • 1917, Gertrude Singleton Mathews, Treasure, page 126:

     Falling roof, hidden shafts, slithiest snakes could not have stopped me after that. I arrived in the sparkling area.

   • 2013, Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows:

     He sweeps down; a frog is pinioned / Swift arrives his faithful soul-mate / True-loves share their slithy dinner.

   • 2014, Timothy Edward, Lessons in Humiliation, page 157:

     The Beast, slithier even than the Jabberwock and certainly a deal more manxsome as a foe, grips in its claws a dreaded P45 from Piers marking the end of employment at Gussage Court.

参考

• Jabberwocky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• “slithy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Hiltys, hylist, shitly