Thick and fast

Definition

thick /θÇk/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ (က) ထူေသာ။ ထူထူ။ a thick slice of bread ❍ a thick book (ie with a lot of pages) ❍ a thick line drawn with a blunt pencil ❍ a thick coat/pullover/carpet ❍ thick fingers/lips. (ခ) အထုရိွ[ေသာ]။ ဒုရိွ[ေသာ]။ The ice on the lake is over six inches thick. ၂။ ~ (with sth/sb) ထူထပ္ေသာ။ ျပည့္ေနေသာ။ a thick forest. ေတာနက္။ ❍ His hair is thick and wavy. ❍ in the thickest part of the crowd ❍ The garden was thick with weeds. ❍ The building was thick with reporters. ၃။ ပ်စ္ေသာ။ thick soup/paint/glue. ၄။ ပိတ္ေသာ။ ပိန္းေနေသာ။ thick fog/ smoke/ clouds. ၅။ (က) သိသိသာသာ (ဝဲေသာ)။ speak in a thick brogue. (ခ) (အသံ) မၾကည္မလင္မသဲကြဲေသာ။ You sound a bit thick this morning! ၆။ ( infml ) ထူေသာ။ တံုးေသာ။ He's a bit thick. ၇။ ~ (with sb) ( infml ) တပူးတြဲတြဲေနေသာ။ John is very thick with Anne. adv ထူထပ္စြာ။ ထူထူ။ snow lying thick on the ground ❍ Don't spread the butter too thick. ❏ give sb/get a thick ear [ IDM ] ( sl ) နားရင္းအုပ္သည္။ ❏ have, etc a thick head [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ေခါင္းအံုသည္။ He woke up with a very thick head. ၂။ ထူသည္။ ထံုသည္။ ❏ in the thick of sth [ IDM ] ေရေရလည္လည္ ကြၽံဝင္လ်က္။ အလယ္ေကာင္တည့္တည့္။ He's always in the thick of it/things. ❍ We were in the thick of the fight. ❏ lay it on thick/with a trowel [ IDM ] ပံုႀကီးခ်ဲ႕သည္။ ပိုပိုကဲကဲ (ေျပာ၊ လုပ္)။ I laid it on thick to impress the interviewer. ❏ thick and fast [ IDM ] တရစပ္စုၿပံဳ၍။ တစ္ၿပံဳတစ္ေခါင္းႀကီး။ Offers of help are coming in thick and fast. ❏ (as) thick as thieves [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္က်ိတ္တည္း တစ္ဉာဏ္တည္း။ ❏ (as) thick as two short planks [ IDM ] ( sl ) အလြန္ထူ သည္။ ထံုသည္၊ အသည္။ ❏ thick-headed adj ထူေသာ။ ထံုေသာ။ အေသာ။ တံုးေသာ။ ❏ thicken /'θÇkǝn/ v ထူပိန္းလာသည္။ ပ်စ္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ I walked home through the thickening fog. ❍ Use flour to thicken the gravy. ❍ a stew thickened with lentils. ❏ thickening /'θÇkǝnÇŋ/ n [U, sing] တုတ္လာျခင္း။ She was aware of a thickening round her waist. ❏ thickly adv ထူထူ။ နက္နက္။ ေအာေအာ။ thickly sliced/buttered bread ❍ a thickly wooded area ❍ ‘I've got a terrible cold,’ she said thickly. ❏ thickness n ၁။ [U, C] အထူ။ အထု။ ဒု။ Snow fell to a thickness of several centimetres. ❍ Sew in a lining to give the coat some extra thickness. ❍ The wood is available in four different thicknesses. ၂။ [C] အလႊာ။ အထပ္။ The town was buried under a great thickness of volcanic ash. ၃။ [C] ဒု။ steps cut into the thickness of the wall. ❏ thick on the ground [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေပါမ်ားသည္။ Promising young players are thick on the ground these days. ❏ thick-skinned adj မနာတတ္ေသာ။ အေရထူ ေသာ။ ❏ through thick and thin [ IDM ] ေအးအတူပူအမွ်။ ဘယ္ဘဝေရာက္ေရာက္။ ေလာကဓံမုန္တိုင္း ထန္ေသာ္လည္း။ He remained loyal to me through thick and thin.

Examples

1. She was wearing a thick woollen sweater.
2. A thick layer of snow
3. Cut the bread into thick slices.
4. Try not to make too much noise – the walls aren’t very thick.
5. The walls in our house are only a few inches thick.
6. It is a rectangular piece of wood
7. perhaps 5 centimetres thick.
8. For dessert
9. serve strawberries covered in thick sweet cream.
10. The soup should be nice and thick.
11. Her thick dark hair hangs all the way to her shoulders.
12. A thick beard
13. A thick row of trees
14. Thick fog prevented Bobby from returning home.
15. [thick with] : The air was thick with smoke.
16. The airport was thick with police officers.
17. He speaks Spanish fluently
18. but with a thick British accent.
19. [thick with] : His voice was thick with fury.
20. He’s rich
21. but a bit thick.
22. [thick with] : She’s very thick with her next-door neighbour.