Healthily

  • 111healthy — health|y W3S3 [ˈhelθi] adj comparative healthier superlative healthiest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(person/animal/plant)¦ 2¦(good for your body)¦ 3¦(showing good health)¦ 4¦(behaviour/attitude)¦ 5¦(company/relationship etc)¦ 6¦(amount)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 112eat — [ it ] (past tense ate [ eıt ] ; past participle eat|en [ itn ] ) verb intransitive or transitive *** to put food into your mouth and swallow it: We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Don t talk while you re eating. I ve eaten too much.… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 113healthy — health|y [ helθi ] adjective *** 1. ) physically strong and not sick: a healthy baby Exercise can be fun, and being healthy feels great. feel healthy: I feel very healthy at the moment. stay/keep healthy: I try to stay as healthy as possible. a ) …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 114make — make1 [ meık ] (past tense and past participle made [ meıd ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 create/produce something ▸ 2 do/say something ▸ 3 cause something to happen ▸ 4 force someone to do something ▸ 5 arrange something ▸ 6 earn/get money ▸ 7 give a total ▸… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 115buxom — [12] Originally, buxom meant ‘obedient’. It goes back to an unrecorded *būhsum, which meant literally ‘capable of being bent’, and was formed from the verb būgan ‘bend’, from which modern English gets bow. The sequence by which the word’s present …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 116glee — [OE] Glee has had a strange history. It was common in Old English times, both for ‘entertainment, having fun’ (source of the modern sense ‘joy, delight’), and in the more specific sense ‘musical entertainment’ (from which we get the… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 117buxom — late 12c., buhsum humble, obedient, from *buh stem of O.E. bugen to bow + som, for a total meaning capable of being bent. Meaning progressed from compliant, obliging, through lively, jolly, healthily plump, vigorous, to (in women, and perhaps… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 118down-and-dirty — adj American a. deceitful, corrupt, savage. An excla mation used in poker (when cards are dealt or slapped on the table) extended to describe base or brutal behaviour. b. basic, primitive, authentic, rough and ready . In this sense the phrase is… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 119dewy — [[t]dju͟ːi, AM du͟ːi[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED Something that is dewy is wet with dew. [LITERARY] The satin slippers tread daintily through the dewy grass. 2) ADJ GRADED If your skin looks dewy, it looks soft and glows healthily …

    English dictionary

  • 120nutritiously — nuː trɪʃəslɪ /nju adv. in a nutritious manner, healthily …

    English contemporary dictionary