drifty

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tending or seeming to drift.
    — The first time I heard them struggling with their electric instruments and singing in cracked falsettos, I imagined a line of fishing boats puttering off into the fogbound sea of a cold New England morn. "Ah, Shrimp Boat," I exclaimed, "what a fine name for sounds so churning and drifty!"
  2. Abounding with driving snow or drift. dialectal

词形变化

driftier comparative driftiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
driftily driftiness

词源

Etymology tree
English drift
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English drifty
From drift + -y.
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