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单词 to make water
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to make water
g. to make water: to urinate. Now chiefly euphemistic. [Compare Middle French faire son eau (1475), Middle French, French †faire de l'eau (c1550).]
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]
migheeOE
pissc1300
to make water?a1475
stale1530
leak1598
urinate1599
minge1606
urine1607
water1631
stroana1730
to pass water1738
to pump ship1759
piddle1784
to make one's burn1788
pittle1801
pee1825
micturate1842
tiddlea1852
leck1922
wet1925
whizz1929
wee-wee1930
wee1934
widdle1934
to go (make) wee-wee1937
tinkle1943
void1947
to take a leak1969
potty1972
slash1973
wazz1984
a1400 [see sense 17b].
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 359 (MED) Mony men of that cuntre vse to make water and to send furthe theire vryne syttenge [L. sedendo..urinam emittunt].
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 603 He leit thame nocht haf sic laseir As anys wattir for to ma.
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 7, in 2nd Pt. Herball It is good for the flixe to the chamber pot called of the beste Physicianes Diabetes, that is when a man maketh water oft and much.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 37 When did'st thou see me heaue vp my leg, and make water against a Gentlewomans farthingale? View more context for this quotation
1650 E. Chilmead tr. J. Gaffarel in tr. L. Modena Hist. Rites of Jews sig. Bv Those that make water, Naked, in a Porch, or Entry of any House, shall be Poor men.
1706 tr. F. de la Calmette Riverius Reformatus iii. 162 Those that are troubled with this Distemper, by continually making Water, fill the Chamber-Pots.
1789 J. Howard Acct. Lazarettos Europe 195 No prisoner..shall..make water against any part of the building, under the penalty of forfeiting for each offence..four-pence.
1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 462/1 He was..enabled..to make water without splashing his silk stockings.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 259 The man who wets his bed, rather than take the trouble to get out and make water, is insanely idle.
1936 D. Thomas Let. 25 Apr. (1987) 226 He'd give her another cup of tea and hold the chamber pot up invitingly and say, ‘Now surely you must make water now.’
1999 Bristol Post (Nexis) 13 Apr. 6 Every couple of streets, the blind man needed to go to the toilet or, as he said, to ‘make water’.
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