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单词 salt water
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salt watern.adj.

Brit. /ˈsɔːlt ˌwɔːtə/, /ˈsɒlt ˌwɔːtə/, /ˌsɔːlt ˈwɔːtə/, /ˌsɒlt ˈwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈsɔlt ˌwɔdər/, /ˈsɔlt ˌwɑdər/, /ˈsɔlt ˌwɔdər/, /ˈsɔlt ˌwɑdər/
Etymology: salt adj.1 Compare Low German salt-wat(t)er, Middle Dutch sout-water, German salz-wasser.
A. n.
a. (with stress salt ˈwater). Water impregnated with salt; sea-water.
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the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > salt
brinea1000
salt watera1000
run1440
brine-water1594
rin1787
the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > from the sea
seawaterc1000
salt waterc1440
salt or bitter sea1602
stay-liquor1682
seawaters1706
a1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxxvi. 13 Sweg micel sealtera wætera.
a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 151 Ðe wop þe man wepeð for his agene sinne is swiðe biter alse saltwater.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 441/1 Salt water, or see water, Nereis.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 129 Gonnepoudre wett in saltwater.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1 Saltewater, saulmevre.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 37v I laboured no otherwise then..he that hauing sore eyes rubbeth them with salt water.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 268 Salt-waters, out of which they boile salt.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 5 By watering the place with brine or Salt water.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 8 Seeng his Spot of Territory incircled with Salt-water.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 368/2 Hot parts of the world where the soil is saline or there is salt water in the vicinity.
figurative.a1450 J. Myrc Festial xxvii. 120 When he passyth þrogh þe salt-watyr of payne of deþe.
b. Applied humorously to tears. (See salt n.1 2e.)
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > a tear > tears
watereOE
salt waterc1400
moisture?c1425
brine1594
rheum1597
dew1598
lachrymas1602
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15694 He wepis..Many a tere of salt watir.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 71 How much salt water cast away in waste, To season loue, that of loue doth not taste. View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Webster White Divel K 'Faith, for some few howers salt water will runne most plentifully in euery Office o' th Court.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 128 Let us hear what all this salt water is about.
c. Applied to the sea. Hence, a jocular form of address to a sailor.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]
shipmanc900
seamanOE
buscarlOE
shipperc1100
ship-gumec1275
marinerc1300
skipper1390
marinela1400
waterman1421
maryneller1470
seafarer1513
sea-fardingera1550
navigator1574
marinec1575
sailer1585
Triton1589
Neptunist1593
canvas-climber1609
sea-crab1609
tar-lubber1610
Neptunian1620
salt-rover1620
sailora1642
tarpaulin1647
otter1650
water dog1652
tarpauliana1656
Jack1659
tar1676
sea-animal1707
Jack tar1709
sailor-man1761
tarry-breeks1786
hearty1790
ocean-farera1806
tarry-jacket1822
Jacky1826
nautical1831
salt water1839
matelotc1847
knight of the tar-brush1866
main-yard man1867
gobby1883
tarry-John1888
blue jersey1889
lobscouser1889
flat-foot1897
handyman1899
1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. vi. 111 ‘Hark'ee, Ben,’ said the old sailor,..‘you may try, but dash my timbers if you'll ever cross the Thames to-night.’ ‘And why not, old saltwater?’ inquired Ben.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xv. 253 When this sun will have disappeared behind the salt-water.
B. adj. (with stress ˈsalt-water).
a. Of, relating to, consisting of, or living in salt water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > salt
salt water1528
salt-watery1812
the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > consisting of or containing water > salt
salt water1796
1528 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 2232 The warffs gittes and saltwater bancks, beginning at Calais and continuing to Graveling.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 65 Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe. View more context for this quotation
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 129 Salt water ditches between Greenwich and Woolwich.
1810 W. Scott Let. 19 July (1932) II. 359 The salt-water loch called Loch an Gaoil.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table i. 10 It does not follow that I wish to be pickled in brine because I like a salt-water plunge at Nahant.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xii. 384 Salt~water fish can with care be slowly accustomed to live in fresh water.
1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends i. iv The train..crossing the Harlem, skirts that pretty little salt water river.
b. In specific names of sea animals.
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1828 H. Davy Salmonia (1840) 72 The salt-water louse adheres to his sides.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 405 The bluefish, which is called the ‘Salt water Tailor’.
1892 Chambers's Encycl. at Terrapin The terrapin par excellence is the Malacoclemmys palustris, the diamond-back salt~water terrapin.
c. Caribbean and U.S. (originally colonial). Designating a person who was born abroad or is a recent immigrant.Recorded earliest in salt-water Negro.In early use often with reference to enslaved people not born in the Caribbean or United States. See salt-water Creole n., salt-water Negro n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [adjective] > relating to immigrants > types of immigrant
salt water1708
transplanted1765
new chum1865
first-generation1896
second-generation1928
totok1963
1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. v. 122 The Creolian Negroes are every way preferable to the new Comers, (which they call Salt-Water Negroes).
1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 93 If I had my will there should never be a salt-water man employed in the States.
1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom xxi. 323 The salt water slave who hung in the guards of a steamer..has, by the publicity given to the circumstance, set a spy on the guards of every steamer departing from southern ports.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 39 Irish informants use turkey and saltwater turkey to designate a recent immigrant.
2011 @ImpData 14 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 23 Nov. 2020) Big ups to all my salt water trinis out here on twitter lol aka trini americans.
d. saltwater taffy (taffy n.11, variant form of toffee n.) U.S., a type of confectionery made chiefly from corn syrup and sugar, frequently sold at North-eastern (chiefly New Jersey) seaside resorts.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee
taffy1817
Everton toffee1822
toffeea1825
hardbake1825
stickjaw1827
tom trot1829
tameletjie1838
butterscotch1847
peanut candy1856
caramel1884
treacle toffee1885
Harrogate toffee1890
brittle1892
peanut brittle1892
saltwater taffy1894
brickle1907
spin1913
hokey-pokey1939
1894 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 July 410/1 (caption) The representation of a four masted schooner with the words ‘The Original Atlantic City Salt Water Taffy’.
1910 H. T. Peck New Baedeker ii. vi. 309 And there are also itinerant venders of every sort of edible..from ‘salt-water taffy’..down to peanuts and ‘hot dogs’.
1933 National Geographic Mag. May 520/2 Next to the visitor, Atlantic City's biggest ‘Industry’ is the making and shipping of ‘salt-water taffy’. Legend says that in the early eighties a man had a candy stand on the beach. One day an unusually high tide splashed over a batch of old-fashioned, pulled taffy on a slab. Being an enterprising person, he told his customers that he had something new—‘salt-water taffy’.
1954 W. Richmond Choice Confections xxi. 385 This formula produces a salt water taffy or kiss of very fine quality... The formula can be used for regular kiss-shaped pieces or long sticks of salt water taffy.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 65 Through the grimy windows of the salt-water taffy counter you see the cold steel arms of the taffy puller motionless and empty-handed.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 48 Vermont cheese and maple syrup, salt-water taffy along the New Jersey shore..are all specialties of their respective regions.

Derivatives

salt-watery adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > salt
salt water1528
salt-watery1812
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 167 All very greasy, blowsy, dabby, dusty, salt-watery, and so on.
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