shiftiness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being shifty. uncountable
    — Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]
  2. The result or product of being shifty. countable,rare
    — I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.

词形变化

shiftinesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English shifty
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English shiftiness
From shifty + -ness.
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