单词 | h2o |
释义 | H2On. Chiefly humorous. Used in non-scientific contexts: water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] waterOE Adam's ale1643 old Adama1689 cold Adam1699 H2O1891 council pop1999 1891 Annex (Monmouth Coll., Illinois) 13 Feb. 10/1 Some persons seldom use the combination known as H2O. They never apply the cleansing bristles to their ivory make-up. They wear linen until it becomes musty with age. 1900 Punch 17 Oct. 277/1 O for a tankard full of H2O, The true, the proletarian Hippocrene. 1920 Lethbridge (Alberta) Daily Herald 27 Nov. 15/1 In passing, if H2o [sic] plus klim equals milk why don't they say so, so we can shake well before using. 1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life iii. 44 I've got this theory that the brain is sort of like H2O—it's got a bunch of states. 2010 D. Wondrich Punch xv. 206 The H2O in that ‘gin and water’ probably wasn't the kind that just sits there. His Punch recipe..calls for ‘iced soda water’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1891 |
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