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drab 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/drab/,
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drabber, comparative; drabbest, superlative;
  1. Lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull
    • - the landscape was drab and gray
    • - her drab suburban existence
  2. Of a dull light brown color
    • - drab camouflage uniforms
Noun
  1. A slovenly woman

  2. A prostitute

  1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
  2. olive drab: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  3. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
  4. olive-drab: of a light brownish green color
  5. blue: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  6. (drabness) dowdiness: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance
  7. Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in their surroundings. ...
  8. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee or colour; A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans; To consort with prostitutes; Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour
  9. A young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
  10. (n): slut, prostitute. FS (8); (anon.) Fam Vic, Ironside, Cromwell, Yorkshire Tr; Pasquil Return; Drayton et al Oldcastle; Marston Malcontent.
  11. slang term around the same time as “drag queen.” — “Drab” short for “dresses like a boy.”
  12. A shade which contains no red or gold tones. To drab hair means to remove red and gold tones from hair.
  13. 1. a slut; slattern. 2. a prostitute.
  14. A nasty, sluttish prostitute.
  15. “potion, medicine, drug.”