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单词 dryasdust
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Dryasdustn.adj.

/ˈdrʌɪəzdʌst/
Etymology: That is, dry as dust.
A. n.
The name of a fictitious person to whom Sir W. Scott pretends to dedicate some of his novels; hence, a writer or student of antiquities, history, or statistics, who occupies himself with the driest and most uninteresting details.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. Ded. Epist. p. iv The venerable name of Dr Jonas Dryasdust.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. i Captain Clutterbuck, to the Rev. Dr Dryasdust.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. i. 13 The Prussian Dryasdust, otherwise an honest fellow, and not afraid of labour, excels all other Dryasdusts yet known.
a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) vii. 214 The Dryasdusts may pick up real gems amidst heaps of rubbish.
1889 Spectator 9 Nov. 644/1 In spite of his being a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has nothing of the Dryasdust about him.
B. adj.
1. Extremely ‘dry’, as a writer, book, or subject of study.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > extremely
over-tedious1483
as dull as ditch-water1844
Dryasdustic1862
Dryasdust1872
Dryasdustish1890
1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. ii. iv. 313 The most dryasdust of the whole.
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 79 Dry-as-dust antiquarian stories.
1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I Am xlv She considered political economy as a dry-as-dust something outside the circle of her life.
1881 M. E. Braddon One Thing Needful viii Aged by poring over dry-as-dust books.
2. literal. Of climate: Extremely dry or rainless.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [adjective] > deficient in rainfall
dry1297
droughty1605
arid1730
Dryasdust1889
1889 Geikie Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Nature 19 Sept. 490 A dry-as-dust climate like that of some of the steppe-regions of our own day.
1889 Geikie Addr. Brit. Assoc. in Nature 19 Sept. 490 I cannot..find..any evidence of a dry-as-dust epoch..in Europe during..the Pleistocene period.

Derivatives

Dryasˈdustic adj. Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > extremely
over-tedious1483
as dull as ditch-water1844
Dryasdustic1862
Dryasdust1872
Dryasdustish1890
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. i. 601 The dark Dryasdustic Ages.
Dryasˈdustish adj. Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > extremely
over-tedious1483
as dull as ditch-water1844
Dryasdustic1862
Dryasdust1872
Dryasdustish1890
1890 Spectator 31 May 767 Elaborate and yet not Dryasdust-ish disquisitions.
Dryasˈdustism n. Apparently an isolated use.
Π
1888 Glasgow Evening Cit. 7 Sept. 2/4 The British Association, which has naturally an extensive acquaintance with dry-as-dustism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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