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
- : 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!
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