单词 | dungish |
释义 | dungishadj. 1. Base, worthless; contemptible, despicable, vile. Only in occasional use after 17th cent. In quot. 2004 in a discussion of seventeenth-century religious poetry, although the work directly referred to does not use this word. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lxxxix Thys dyvinite of yours is but dongyshe [printed dougyshe] daubry. ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 46 Dongysh and fylthie tradicions. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 126 No lesse dungish and brutish. 1672 J. Bunyan Def. Doctr. Justif. (1673) 39 Such Dungish Principles as yours. 2004 J. Gatta Making Nature Sacred ii. 39 ‘Acts of God’ like the sweeping flood are aptly viewed as..fit judgments on humanity's dungish ways. 2. Of or resembling dung; characteristic of or suggestive of dung. Somewhat rare. ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 184 The undermost barley of the swarths, which lay next the earth, was generally sogged every day, and dungish till turned. 1925 New Coterie No. 1. 51 There is a reek of raw flesh and dungish perspiration. 1962 Arion Spring 93 He has an enormous paunch, and if he has any basic color, it is a pervasive dungish tan. 2011 C. Fleming Between Cloud & Horizon (2013) (Electronic ed.) It takes something to out-pungent the perpetual dung-ish smell of this fine and fertile land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1550 |
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