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Klutzy describes a person — or the way they move — when they drop things and fall easily. It is the adjective that belongs with . “He is klutzy on the ice” means his body is not doing what he wants. Like , it is informal, American, and a little fond. You can also talk about a klutzy moment, one act, without saying the person is always like that. Though actually, English already had , which is the safer school word. Klutzy feels more spoken, more at home in chat and stories, and a bit warmer.
笨手笨腳的
組成klutz + -y. The ending -y turns the person-word into a describing word (“like that”).
同家族的字
- klutzthe person; klutzy is how you describe them
原始詞典資料1 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。
klutzyadj/ˈklʌtsi/
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derogatoryslangAwkward, clumsy or socially inept.
- Life is a high wire act and there's no net. And most of us are klutzy, so watch out, here comes another splat.
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。