plookyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

plooky (comparative more plooky, superlative most plooky)

1. (Scotland) Covered in blotches or pimples.
   • 1803, Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: Historical Ballads, page 54:

     He looked on the leper-man, Who lay on his queen's bed ; He lifted up the snaw-white sheets, And thus to him he said : — " Plooky, plooky, are your cheeks, And plooky is your chin, And plooky are your armis twa, My bonny queen's layne in.

   • 1822, John Galt, The Provost:

     For many a year, one Robin Boss had been town drummer ; — he was a relic of some American-war fencibles, and was, to say the God's truth of him, a divor bodie, with no manner of conduct, saving a very earnest endeavour to fill himself fou as often as he could get the means ; the consequence of which was, that his face was as plooky as a curran bun, and his nose as red as a partan's tae.

   • 1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, page 245:

     This is what it feels like to be so far down the pecking order that a plooky kid earning ninety quid a week to walk his dog along a derelict riverbank can assume she's his for the asking.

   • 2007, Robert Douglas, Somewhere To Lay My Head, →ISBN:

     To shave my plooky face in hot water is bad enough.

2. Like a youth; inchoate, inexperienced.
   • 2003 August 25, hazel, “malformed reply address”, in microsoft.public.exchange.admin, Usenet‎^[1]:

     I work as an IT assistant in a plooky wee company and theres always been problems with our Exchange 5.5 Server.

   • 2004 October 29, Wally, “S.A.D”, in uk.local.glasgow, Usenet‎^[2]:

     It was a better effort than some of the crud that's been slithering down the ulg gutter lately - at least he attempted a build up (even if it was too quick かつ had a Flamebait Rating of zilch). Well written, but a bit plooky and gimboid; not quite a breath of fresh air, but better than slithering crud.