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单词 pondy
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pondyadj.

Brit. /ˈpɒndi/, U.S. /ˈpɑndi/
Forms: 1600s– pondy, 1800s pondey.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pond n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pond n. + -y suffix1.
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).
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