Prettyname詞源 1

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  A surname.

prettyadj/ˈpɹɪt.i/

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  Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.

  • Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.
  • Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
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  Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.

  • Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
  • 'Petit Posy' brassicas […] are a cross between kale and brussels sprouts, and are really very pretty with a mild, sweet taste.
• 3

  derogatoryFine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.

  • Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories as "faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste."
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  derogatoryEffeminate.

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  Cunning; clever, skilful.

  • In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […].
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  datedModerately large; considerable.

  • they flung all the goods in the house out at the windows into the street, or into the sea, as they supposed; thus they continued mad a pretty season […].
  • "What did you do to your hair?" The answer could be worth a pretty penny for L'Oreal.
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  datedExcellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).

  • Some people are surprised, I believe, that that the eldest was not [named after his father], but Isabella would have him named Henry, which I thought very pretty of her.
  • ‘This new fashion of introducing the candidate's children into an election contest is a pretty one,’ said Mrs. Panstreppon; ‘it takes away something from the acerbity of party warfare, and it makes an interesting experience for the children to look back on in after years.’
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  Awkward, unpleasant, bad.

  • "Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you."
  • [A] pretty thing it would be, if a man of business had to examine every cab-horse before he hired it—[…]

prettyadv/ˈpɹɪt.i/

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  Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.

  • They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
  • By the Sheets you have sent me to peruse, the Account you have given of her Birth and Parentage is pretty exact [...].
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  dialectalPrettily, in a pretty manner.

  • 'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'

prettynoun/ˈpɹɪt.i/

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  A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.

  • I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
• 2

  Something that is pretty.

  • We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.

prettyverb/ˈpɹɪt.i/

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  To make pretty; to beautify

  • He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Preeti