measly

FREQ #21117

a. 患麻疹的 [医] 米珠的, 含囊尾蚴的

发音

UK /ˈmiːzli/
AU
US /ˈmizli/

词形变化

measley measlier 比较级 measlier measliest measliest 最高级

别名

measily measley

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms).

  2. 2.

    Of a person: infected with measles.

  3. 3.

    Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.

    比喻 非正式

    For one whole day's work all I was given was twenty measly pounds.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

miserable paltry

近义相关 4

stingy meager meagre scrimpy

词源

From measle (“singular of measles”) + -y; the word measle is either from Middle Dutch masel (“a blister filled with blood; a pustule, a skin blemish”), or Middle Low German masel (“a red skin blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *masuraz (“a knot or scar in wood; a knarl”), from *mas-, *mēs- (“a spot; a sore; a scar”), from Proto-Indo-European *mos- (“a skin sore”).

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