floaty
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈfləʊti/
美 /ˈfloʊti/|[-ɾi]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.
— Why don't you stop slathering millions of things on your face, and lather up with my gentle Swan? It's the loveliest, pure, mild floatie—why, it'll get you clean as a baby!
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A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.
— I am going to begin with a confession that seems to me to be startling less for its content than for the sheer number of similar stories that I have heard related among so many of my successful women friends. Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow floatie in the public pool of our conversations.
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Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).
— As an escaped megalodon swims close to a busy beach, we see humanity at its most chompable: chubby kids in floaties, doofuses on pontoons, some dork in a tight Speedo rolling around in one of those big inflatable Zorb balls. But alas, the movie is a gore-free PG-13, and though CGI has long since replaced animatronics as the monster movie's weapon of choice, one thing hasn’t changed: giant killer fish still look like they’re made of rubber.
形容词 adj.
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Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.
— [S]ome fevv buttes of beare being flotie they got, vvhich though it had lien ſix moneths vnder vvater vvas very good, […]
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Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.; Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.
— I then told my Lord of Eſſex that mine vvas a floaty ſhip and vvell appointed for that ſervice; […]
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Of music: light and relaxing.
— All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts [during a massage] as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain.
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Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress: lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving.
— O here is a Bed / Shrinkproofer than that, / A floatier, boatier / Bed than that!
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Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the air.
— [A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]
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Of speech or writing: overly complicated or elaborate; flowery, grandiloquent.
— [William Butler] Yeats divests himself of his floatier fin-de-siècle rhetoric to discover a hard plain speech both properly twentieth century and pre-nineteenth century.
词汇关系
并列词
词源
词源 1
From float (noun or verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘inclined to’ forming adjectives). Compare Middle English floti, floty (“of a place: well supplied with water”).
词源 2
From float (noun) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
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