slimsyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈslɪmzi/
• 韻: -ɪmzi
• ハイフネーション: slim‧sy

形容詞

slimsy (comparative more slimsy, superlative most slimsy)

1. (US, colloquial, dated) flimsy; frail
   • 1922, Robert Gordon Anderson, The Isle of Seven Moons, Chapter 8:

     In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way.

別の表記

• slimpsy

参照

• “slimsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.