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If clothes, curtains, or a are frilly, they have lots of those wavy, folded strips of cloth along the edge — frills. The word often suggests pretty in a , way: a frilly dress, frilly socks, a frilly apron. Though actually, people sometimes use it with a little smile or a little criticism. A bit frilly can mean too much decoration, not simple enough. An ordinary, slightly informal adjective, mostly about how things look.
有荷葉邊的、花邊很多的
組成From frill + -y. The -y means full of, or having a lot of.
同家族的字
- frillthe wavy strip of cloth this describes
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
frillyadj/ˈfɹɪli/
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Having frills; frilled.
- In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.
- Ms. Grant was dressed up as Little Bo Peep and had on a huge, frilly skirt that was held out with a hoop at the bottom.
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Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。