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動詞

soapen (三人称単数 現在形 soapens, 現在分詞 soapening, 過去形および過去分詞形 soapened)

1. (transitive) To make soapy; apply soap to; lather up
   • 2005, The Puffin Book of Funny Stories, page 18:

     I know, his tastes were disgusting too), he flicked through his enormous dictionary (which he was careful to keep out of the dampening effects of the shower かつ the soapening effects of the soap) looking for and learning enormous words that he could use to impress everyone as he practised the speech that he had only just written and improved with a careful swirl from his indigo-ink fountain pen which he filled from a faucet installed specially for the purpose.

語源 2

From soap +‎ -en.

形容詞

soapen (comparative more soapen, superlative most soapen)

1. (まれに, literally, figuratively) Made of, or carved out of soap
   • 1746, The gentleman's magazine, volume 16, page 657:

     None to mix stones or sand with kelp or foreign ashes, or expose such to sale, under forfeiture of 40s. to the informer, nor use lime, soapen dregs, or any dung but cow-dung, in the whitening or bleaching linen cloth or yarn, without forfeiting 5l. to the informer; […]

   • 1958, Roy G. Francis, The Population Ahead, page 64:

     From this ivory, or soapen, pinnacle we can see at once that there is no such thing as a population problem; there is only population.

アナグラム

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