英和和英

動詞

thundering

1. present participle and gerund of thunder
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     ...Mr. Crofts (that was the name of my brute) was gone out of the house, after waiting till he had tired his patience for Mrs. Brown's return, they came thundering up-stairs...

形容詞

thundering (comparative more thundering, superlative most thundering)

1. Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
2. Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.
3. (colloquial) Very great; extraordinary.
   • 1927, G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown:

     “I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.

派生語

副詞

thundering (comparative more thundering, superlative most thundering)

1. (colloquial) Very great; extraordinarily.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 112:

     "As long as there are any of us left sound and healthy we've got a chance - a thundering good chance."

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 thundryng, þondring, from 古期英語 þunring (“thundering; thunder”), equivalent to thunder +‎ -ing.

名詞

thundering (plural thunderings)

1. A loud percussive sound, like thunder.
   • 1833, Bela Bates Edwards, Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, page 275:

     I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.

2. (archaic) A thunderstorm.

アナグラム

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