dunkable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any food item suitable for dunking.
    — Other dunkables besides bread cubes are chunks of apples and pears, grapes, cocktail wieners, cubes of boiled ham, shrimp, pitted olives, and tiny boiled potatoes.
形容词 adj.
  1. Suitable for dunking (as of food). informal
    — Just remember to keep the mixture thick; it should coat the dunkable items heavily.
  2. Waterproof. informal
    — The row upon row of half-inch, hand-plaited straw, handsewn, is eminently dunkable, a feature not only useful to the seafaring inventors...

词形变化

more dunkable comparative most dunkable superlative dunkables plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English dunk
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English dunkable
From dunk + -able.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English dunk
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English dunkable
From dunk + -able.
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