英和和英

動詞

pelting

1. present participle and gerund of pelt

名詞

pelting (plural peltings)

1. The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
   • 1830, Baptist Missionary Magazine, volume 10, page 88:

     […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.

語源 2

Related to paltry.

形容詞

pelting (comparative more pelting, superlative most pelting)

1. (obsolete) mean; paltry
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     I pray you, let us see you in the field;
     We have had pelting wars since you refused
     The Grecians' cause.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 68, column 1:

     Could great men thunder
     As Ioue himſelfe do's, Ioue vvould neuer be quiet
     For euery pelting petty Officer
     VVould vſe his heauen for thunder;
     Nothing but thunder: […]

アナグラム

• petling