单词 | pondy |
释义 | pondyadj. Chiefly U.S. 1. Having many ponds; marshy, swampy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] fen-lichc1000 fennyc1000 mooryOE marshya1382 marshlyc1410 moorisha1492 queachy?a1500 marish1549 plashya1552 foggy?1555 fen-like1561 undrained1573 fennish1577 boggy1587 paludious1595 wealy1601 marishy1607 snapy1607 uliginous1610 quagmiry1623 paludiate1632 boggish1633 pooly1652 swampy1661 spouty1677 gouty1686 pondy1687 morassy1699 sloppy1699 lairy17.. soggya1722 swampish1725 splashy1727 squashy1751 haggy1765 gaulty1784 slumpy1823 sumpy1824 paludine1852 paludic1854 paludinal1856 paludian1860 paludinous1866 paludal1871 paludial1875 morassic1893 muskeggy1894 swamped1899 1687 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899) II. 266 Thirty or forty acres of wet Pondy Land at poor brooke. 1711 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899) II. 317 Two or three acres of Pondy Land at the South end of his medow neer the Ponds. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 501 In swamps and pondy ground. 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 19 Nov. in J. B. McMaster Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) III. 236 A low pondey Countrey, maney places open with small ponds. 1813 J. Austen Let. 21 Oct. (1995) 242 I thought it [sc. a hare] would not live long in that Pondy House. 1905 H. James Coll. Trav. Writings (1993) 387 I remember not less a longish walk, and a longer drive, into low extensions of woody, piney, pondy landscape. 1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 29 Nov. 69 Crabtree has 1,100 acres of..swampy, marshy, pondy and even lakey land. 2. Belonging to or suggestive of a pond. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pond > [adjective] millpond1872 pondy1922 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. July 440/1 The peculiar ‘pondy’ smell of the bird [sc. moorhen] does not suggest that it would prove a great delicacy. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Nov. 48/3 A mulligatawny soup of soil, rainwater and pondy chemicals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1687 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。