obuncousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈbʌŋ.kəs/
• 韻: -ʌŋkəs

形容詞

obuncous (comparative more obuncous, superlative most obuncous)

1. (archaic, very rare) Crooked; bent.
   • 1893 December, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in St. Nicholas, volume XXI, number 2, page 185:

     Being easily exsuscitated, and an amnicolist fond of inescating fish and broggling, with an ineluctable desire for the amolition of care, I took a punt and descended the river in a snithy gale. The water being smooth, I felt I could venture with incolumity, as I was familiar with the obuncous river.

   • 1916 December 16, “Perspective Impressions”, in Town Talk, volume XXVIII, number 1269, San Francisco, page 6:

     Speaking of the garbage problem, why not incinerate some of our obuncous politicians?

   • 2010 January, Brenda IIjima, “Panthering”, in If Not Metamorphic, Ahsahta Press, page 113:

     Obuncous stake sweating the desk / In winter / For that matter, the ashen morning of loss

   • 2013, Lexmilian S. R. B. de Mello, Percarus‎, [self-published through Xlibris]:

     The rabble became obuncous towards the poet's scribbiling.–