单词 | dripping wet |
释义 | > as lemmasdripping wet 2. quasi-adv. in dripping wet. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adverb] wetly1562 dripping wet1840 1840 F. Marryat S.W. & by W. in Olla Podrida The master..came down dripping wet. dripping wet c. with prefixed intensive participle, as wringing wet (see wringing adj. 1b), dripping wet, †dropping wet. wet through, to the skin: having one's clothes completely saturated (cf. wet v. 4c). ΘΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out wringing wet1570 dropping wet1605 dripping wet1835 1526 100 Merry Tales No. 82 (facs.) 22 b There fel a good showre of rayn that the skoler was well wasshyd and wete to ye skyn. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367v/2 Wherwith they made hem stately fires great To dry their clothes yt were wringing weat. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Dropping wet..I returne to land Laden with spoiles. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Traversé,..wet through, or (as we say) to the skinne. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 12 I don't believe..that they were ever wet to the skin in their lives. 1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr. We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 61 But all this does not make it the more agreeable to get wet through. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xiii Some dripping wet, having fallen into the river. 1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 359 The last eighteen miles it rained like fury, and I reached Hartford wet through. 1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 343 The rain set in..so heavily, that in half an hour I was wet to the skin. < as lemmas |
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