单词 | fogged |
释义 | foggedadj.1 That has been or become fogged (in various senses of fog v.1); esp. obscured, cloudy (literal and figurative). Also with up. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [adjective] > indistinct foggy1854 veiled1856 fogged1891 soft-focused1906 soft focus1911 1661 O. Felltham Lusoria xxviii. 28 in Resolves (rev. ed.) The Sun, before mans damning Fall Threw a fogg'd guilt upon this All. 1838 Sporting Mag. Feb. 270 Passengers in fine weather are communicative enough; in dull weather just the reverse, and their powers seem fogged up. 1849 Florist Dec. 321 Remove any fogged foliage. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 20 Under the face of the fogged city moon. 1891 Photogr. Times 3 Apr. 166/2 He developed right under the light, and had never had any fogged plates. 1917 Century Feb. 485/1 He lay, getting his fogged brain to work, leaden between the sheets. 1967 Skiing Dec. 153/1 Fogged up glasses or goggles can ruin an otherwise perfect run. 1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) vii. 61 Disgruntled Eastman Kodak customers..complained that they were sold fogged film. 2015 L. Genova Inside O'Briens xxviii. 263 Patrick is standing in front of the car..appearing blurry through the watery, fogged windshield. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). foggedadj.2 1. Of a field, pasture, etc.: left with long grass; (also occasionally) having coarse or dead grass. Also of grass: left uncut or ungrazed. Cf. fog v.3 2a, fog n.1 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed > not > left under long grass fogged1735 1735 True Method treating Light Hazely Ground Buchan vi. 48 Fauch requires a fogged Sward, which takes much longer Time to rest. 1794 C. Hassall Gen. View Agric. Pembroke 36 The farmer..improves his grass lands by the quantity of seeds shed upon the surface, by the fogged grass. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 484 The practice of putting cattle from fogged-fields into the straw yard at night. 1897 Scotsman 8 Feb. 10/1 On no account, except in the case of ‘fogged’ pasture land, should hot lime be applied to the soil. 1906 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 18 85 The pasture had got coarse and fogged so that stock would not eat it. 1959 Country Life 12 Feb. 294/3 The season's lambs outwintered on fogged pasture put on more liveweight gain than those that were sent away on the winter migration. 2. Scottish. a. Covered with or full of moss or lichen; mossy. Cf. fog v.3 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [adjective] > covered in or overgrown with moss moss-grownc1390 moss-begrown?a1425 mossy1561 fogged1743 mossed1744 sphagnose1818 sphagnous1845 1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 100 The grass..is become very sour, full of sprets, and in many places fogged. 1832 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 9 118 Where water stands for a length of time about the roots, it [sc. the larch] becomes fogged or covered with lichens. 1839 G. Cree in Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 12 174 I pruned some trees which were completely fogged..and such was the effect..that in the course of three years the moss (lichen) had lost its hold. 1879 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 15 447 Where the green-land was once good pasture, it is now much fogged with moss. 1948 M. Lindsay Hurlygush 29 Oot i the foggit gairden shed twa spiders speil ane clortit web. b. figurative. Only in well-fogged: well provided; well off. Now rare.Apparently with allusion to birds or wild bees lining their nests with moss; cf. quot. 1806 and bike n.1 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > well-provided or supplied plenteousc1350 plentifulc1400 well-replenished1448 well-provided1523 well-supplied1594 storeful1598 flush1603 well-plenished1662 well-fogged1790 rowth1863 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 332 In case auld lucky be well fogget. 1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 293 For nocht but a house-wife was wantin' To plenish his weel-foggit byke. 1980 E. T. Dawson in New Poetry (London) No. 48. 19 Gweed sakes, I'm aff weel-foggit fowk. It's nae a metch for me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11661adj.21735 |
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