pithy

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pithy englannista suomeksi

1. ytimekäs

1. ytimekäs

pithy englanniksi

1. Concise and meaningful.

2. (RQ:Hazlitt Spirit of the Age)

3. {{quote-journal|en|date=April 25 1873|title=Chemical News/Justus Liebig (obituary)|Obituary - Justus Liebig|editor=William Crookes|journal=The Chemical News

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1876|author=Rosina Bulwer Lytton|chapter=from the Sands of Time/On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies|On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies|title=s:Shells from the Sands of Time

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6. Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.

7. 1863, Winthrop|Theodore Winthrop, ''Heart of the Andes”/Part 2|“The Heart of the Andes”'', Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in ''in the Open Air and other papers|Life in the Open Air and other papers'',

Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?

8. 1910, Hyde Bailey|Liberty Hyde Bailey, ''Manual of Gardening'', Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,

''Parsnip''.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1911|chapter=Encyclopædia Britannica/Mushroom|Mushroom|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

10. Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial.

11. (quote-journal) Fergusson|title=Caller Water|journal=The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) Ruddiman|Wal(quote-gloss) Ruddiman|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=urARAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA114|column=2|oclc=7200342|passage=His bairns a’ before the flood / Had langer tack o’ fleſh and blood, / And on mair pithy ſhanks they ſtood / Than ''(w)''’s line, / Wha ſtill hae been a feckleſs brood / Wi’ drinking wine.

12. (quote-book)|title=Anster Fair, a Poem.(nb...)|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) For William Cockburn, (...) by and Boyd|Oliver & Boyd,(nb...)|section=stanza XIX|page=33|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-BKh4WD6FgC&pg=PA33|oclc=3758709|passage=Next, from the well-air’d ancient town of Crail, / Go out her craftsmen with tumultuous din, / Her wind-bleach’d fishers, garrulous and thin; / And some are flush’d with horns of pithy ale, (..)

13. (quote-book) Lang|title=The Swinburne Letters|volume=!3 (1875–1877)|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=Yale University Press|year_published=1960|page=112|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/letters0003swin/page/112/mode/1up|lccn=59-12698|oclc=42557|passage=Great freshwater lakes sweep away inland from the very verge of the sea, parted from them only by pebble-banks and ridge of shingle—a sea without rocks or cliff, but the worst in England for shipwrecks—all shoals as far as you can see—water thick and pithy with sand.