英和和英

語源

whey +‎ -ness

名詞

wheyness (複数形 not attested)

1. The quality of being wheylike.
   • 1878, Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Summer Snow

     She was comely in her tall fairness; but Hal's manly brown had entirely obviated the charge of a certain wheyness of tint, which might attach itself to Debby's flaxen hair, light eyebrows, and blonde, rather colourless skin.

   • 2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

     Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.