hevelledとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

hevelled (comparative more hevelled, superlative most hevelled)

1. Alternative form of shevelled.
   • 1943, Autocar, page 765:

     When last Saturday proved rainy, I greased the steering throughout, and having mantled the parts once more, did wash the whole car. I now rejoice to behold it couth, kempt, gainly, hevelled and sightly, though much aggrieved over some spottings which I did not find delible.

   • 1974, The Spectator, page 351:

     But how very young and earnest we looked then! And above all, how very, very kempt, not to say hevelled.

   • 1978 April, Ed Zern, “Exit Laughing”, in Field & Stream, page 228, column 1:

     I once described Bud Leavitt, the foremost chronicler of outdoor doings in the state of Maine, as “unkempt and dishevelled,” and got a note from him explaining that if he were any more kempt or hevelled than he is, nobody in the Bangor area, where he lives, would have anything to do with him.

   • 2007, Cyril Makoff, “Let us parage Henry”, in On the Other Hand, →ISBN, page 52:

     All through his life he shunned the negative, lived by the affirmative, kempt, always perfectly hevelled, when Henry entered a room we expected things to happen and we were always appointed.

   • 2014, Darrel Bristow-Bovey, One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo, Zebra Press, →ISBN:

     There’s a scruffy-looking man in front of me. He has baggy pants that sag to various levels and a shirt so dishevelled it’s hard to believe there was ever a time when it was hevelled.