drab

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a. 土褐色的, 单调的

发音

US /dɹæb/
其它
UK /dɹæb/

词形变化

drabs 复数 drabs 三单 drabbing 现在分词 drabbed 过去式 drabbed 过去分词 drabber 比较级 drabber drabbest drabbest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

单调的；土褐色的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.

    定语 可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The color of this fabric.

    定语 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.

    定语 可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.

    定语 可数 不可数 引申义
  5. 1.

    A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.

    定语 过时
  6. 2.

    A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.

    定语 过时
  7. 1.

    A small amount, especially of money.

    定语
  8. 1.

    A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

    定语
  9. 1.

    An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).

    定语 不可数
  10. 1.

    Poison.

    定语 废旧 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

    定语 不及物 废旧
  2. 1.

    To poison.

    定语 废旧 俚语
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

    定语
  2. 2.

    Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.

    定语 引申义

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

olive drab

上位词 1

olive
形容词

同义词 10

sorry dark blue sober grim gloomy somber dreary dismal sombre

近义相关 7

dull depressing colorless cheerless chromatic colourless uncheerful

相关短语

olive drab a. 深绿褐色的 Russia drab

词源

Probably from Middle French and Old French drap (“cloth”), either: * from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth”), most likely from Gaulish *drappo, from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”); or * from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”), from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to beat, crush; to make or become thick”). The English word is cognate with Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépō, “to pluck”), Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬀𐬟𐬱𐬀 (drafša, “banner, flag”), Lithuanian drãpanos (“household linens”), Old Norse trefja (“to rub, wear out”), trof (“fringes”), Sanskrit द्रापि (drāpi, “mantle, gown”), Serbo-Croatian drápati (“to scratch, scrape”)).

来源：wiktionary