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ungirt

/uhn-gurt/US // ʌnˈgɜrt //

无裙装,不穿裙子,无裙带,不穿衣服

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a girdle loosened or removed.
    • : slack; relaxed; not taut or pulled together: ungirt thinking.

Examples

  • Bareheaded and ungirt, the candidate is conducted before the dread tribunal.

  • Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch.

  • When there was work to be done she never could rest with “unlit lamp and ungirt loin.”

  • Ungirt, unblest, says the proverb; but my girdle shall serve for a riding knot; and a fig for all the witches in Christendom!

  • Pardon for the ungirt loin, for the service shirked, for all good deeds undone!