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单词 plug-ugly
释义

Definition of plug-ugly in English:

plug-ugly

nounPlural plug-uglies
North American informal
  • A thug or villain.

    暴徒,恶棍

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Two huge plug-uglies stood on either side of the door, arms folded.
    • A broad plug-ugly was trying to twist around, shaking and shimmying his forearm caught by her hands.
    • The filmmakers' desire to create an unstuffy, modern version of the Renaissance monarch merely turns him into a boorish, violent plug-ugly.
adjective
North American informal
  • (of a person) very ugly.

    (人)非常丑陋的

    that was one plug-ugly dress
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Okay, so you are not plug-ugly and you don't find it impossible to lure women into your dizzying orbit, but just what is it about you that turns out to be so utterly repellent?
    • Gone were her cauliflower ears, gone was her pug nose, her squat face had ballooned out, her once squinty eyes were now just slits in her plug-ugly face.
    • He has gone off for good with that plug-ugly researcher.
    • But the belt clip is plug-ugly and poorly designed and oversized - what happened, it seems to have been made and fitted by a different company?

Origin

By association with the verb plug in the informal sense 'hit with the fist'.

Rhymes

ugly

Definition of plug-ugly in US English:

plug-ugly

nounˈpləɡ ˈəɡlēˈpləɡ ˈəɡli
North American informal
  • A thug or villain.

    暴徒,恶棍

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A broad plug-ugly was trying to twist around, shaking and shimmying his forearm caught by her hands.
    • Two huge plug-uglies stood on either side of the door, arms folded.
    • The filmmakers' desire to create an unstuffy, modern version of the Renaissance monarch merely turns him into a boorish, violent plug-ugly.
adjectiveˈpləɡ ˈəɡlēˈpləɡ ˈəɡli
North American informal
  • Very ugly.

    that was one plug-ugly dress
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Okay, so you are not plug-ugly and you don't find it impossible to lure women into your dizzying orbit, but just what is it about you that turns out to be so utterly repellent?
    • But the belt clip is plug-ugly and poorly designed and oversized - what happened, it seems to have been made and fitted by a different company?
    • Gone were her cauliflower ears, gone was her pug nose, her squat face had ballooned out, her once squinty eyes were now just slits in her plug-ugly face.
    • He has gone off for good with that plug-ugly researcher.

Origin

By association with the verb plug in the informal sense ‘hit with the fist’.

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