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wet-shod († -shoed), a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: α. 4–5 wete-schood, -shoed, -shode; 5 wet-schoede, -schode, -shood (whetshood), 6 -shoode, 7 -shooed; 5 watschoed, -schood. β. 4–6 wete-shodde, 5 wate-shodd; 5– wet-shod (5 -schod, 7 -shodde; 5 wadsshod, 7 ? wet-shot). (Also in many dialect forms: see Eng. Dial. Dict.)
[f. wete, wate wet a. + shoed, shod, ppl. adjs.]
Having the feet wet.
α1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 1 Wolleward and wete⁓shoed went I forth after. 1393Ibid. C. xvii. 14 And ȝut is wynter for hem wors, for wet-shood þei gangen. a1400Arthur 469 Þere men were wetschoede All of brayn & of blode. a1470Gregory Chron. in Hist. Collect. Cit. Lond. (Camden) 207 They fulle ungoodely smote owte the heddys of the pypys and hoggs hedys of wyne, that men wente wete-schode in wyne. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. v. §2 Moses foretold that he should be wetshooed in oile.
β1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 161 And ȝit is wynter for hem worse, for wete-shodde thei gange. 1393Ibid. C. xxi. 1 Wo-werie and wetschod wente ich forth after. c1440Alphabet of Tales 172 A preste þat hight Stephan on a tyme was wate-shodd. a1510Stanbridge Vulgaria (W. de W.) B vj, I am wete shodde, Pedes humectant. 1542Boorde Dyetary xxx. (1870) 293 Beware of takyng colde in the legge, or ryding, or goynge wetshod. 1592Lyly Gallathea i. iv. 10 Ile warrant by this time he is wetshod. 1627Drayton Agincourt cxcii, Scarse a man but wet-shod went in gore. 1657T. M. Life Sat. Puppy Nim 10 They which followed the Coffin to buriall, went wetshod in those affectionate Teares. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1900) 235 So he went over [the river] at last, not much above wet-shod. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 320 Your Billy has not yet been accustom'd to be wet-shod. 1775Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 41, I passed the stream several times without being wet-shod. 1825–in many dialect glossaries (cf. Eng. Dial. Dict.).
b. fig. (or in figurative context).
1575Fenton Golden Epist. (1582) 249 You seeme..to wade continually wetshoode in the laake of this miserable worlde. 1589? Lyly Pappe w. Hatchet B j b, He will make their wits wetshod, if the ale haue his swift current. 1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr iii. iii, All my hopes are seam-rent, and go wet-shod. a1652Brome City Wit iv. i, Virtue goes often wetshod, and is forc'd to be cobled up with base means, to hold out water and cold necessity. 16..Times 1 in Cleveland's Wks. (1687) 239 To speak in wet⁓shod Eyes, and drowned Looks. |