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单词 thorough wet
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thorough wetadj.

Forms:

α. Old English þurhwæt, 1500s through wett, 1600s 1900s through wet.

β. Middle English thorow wette, Middle English 1600s thorow wet, 1700s–1900s thorough wet.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: through- prefix, wet adj., thorough- prefix.
Etymology: In α. forms < through- prefix + wet adj. In β. forms < thorough- prefix + wet adj.In later use with the first element probably apprehended as (in α. forms) through adv. 2b or (in β. forms) thorough adv. 1. Compare wet through at wet adj. 4c.
Obsolete.
Wetted or wet through; saturated with moisture.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]
thorough wetOE
drunk1382
drunkenc1420
uliginosec1440
dung wetc1450
drookeda1522
wet through, to the skin1526
sogginga1552
washed1557
washy1566
muck-wet1567
wringing wet1570
drenched1589
dropsy1605
ydrenched1610
sobby1611
dropsieda1616
slocken1643
uliginous1650
dabbling1661
sodded1661
sobbing1664
sobbed1693
flashy1702
saturated1728
saturate1785
livereda1796
sappy1806
laving1812
sodden1820
sopped1822
soppy1823
soaked1829
dropsical1845
soddened1845
soaking wet1847
soggya1852
sogged1860
soaking1864
sopping1866
soaken1898
astream1929
OE Ælfric 2nd Let. to Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 172 Gif hwa win næbbe ofer ealne þone gear, he nime lynen hrægl..and bedyppe on wine, þæt he þurhwæt sy.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 12942 (MED) So faste doun the water ȝet That thei were alle thorow wet.
c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 34 (MED) Let it boille a littel, and put ther in a pese of new wollen cloth..till it be thorow wette and as hote as he may suffir.
1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xci Then, hang your throughwett garmentes on the wall.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F To haue him stand in the raine tyll he was thorough wet.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 47 They made me to waite a good while in the raine, till I was so thorow-wet, that the water that came in at my Pole, dropt out at my knees, and went guttring downe into my shooes.
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 44 The miserable Stipend or Hireling wages will hardly buy wood to make a fire for him when hee comes home to dry him, when hee's through wet.
1728 N. Markwick Calculation LXX Weeks Daniel iii. 202 The Lord cometh with all his Garments stain'd and thorough wet, as if they had been wash'd in Blood.
1776 Mod. Couple lv. 189 His life might be endangered by his remaining in his thorough wet cloaths.
1853 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 16 July 231/6 Lucky was he that could escape into an omnibus without a thorough wet jacket.
1899 E. Hussey On Acct. of Sarah (1900) ii. xxxvi. 248 To be sure, gentlemen What rain! and so sudden too; you must be thorough wet.
1901 E. G. Hayden Trav. round Village 154 Come in, you must be through wet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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