单词 | unwashed |
释义 | unwashedadj.n. A. adj. 1. Not washed; not cleaned by washing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > uncleaned > unwashed unwashenc1000 unwashed?a1390 unbathed1570 ?a1390 Form of Cury in Warner Antiq. Culin. (1791) 21 Take Hares,..and seeþ hem with þe blode unwaisshed in broth. a1400 Northern Passion 346 Wasche fote and hand we pray þe, þat nokyn thyng vn wessched be. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 368/1 On-waschyd, illotus. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 66/2 It is good to laye vppon the place, vnwashed woulle. 1605 R. F. tr. F. Dedekind Schoole of Slovenrie i. iv. 15 Then with your vnwasht knife to cut your meate can breede no hurt. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone Ep. Ded. sig. ¶2 I..haue loathed the vse of such foule, and vn-washd Baudr'y. View more context for this quotation 1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. E A slanderous, beastly, vnwash'd tongue. View more context for this quotation 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 179 Take Mallows and Mercury unwasht. 1751 M. Akenside Ode to T. Edwards vi The sophist..With unwashed hands and lips profane. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. v. 91 She proceeded with unwashed hands to arrange the stipulated bed-linen. 1849 C. J. Lever Confessions Con Cregan I. xv. 216 Wickedness in its most unwashed state. 1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 232 The emulsion is an unwashed one. 2. spec. Of persons: not having washed; not usually washed or in a clean state. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] > unwashed (of persons) unwasheda1616 untoileted1819 soapless1825 unlaving1834 unsoaped1837 bathless1889 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 202 Another leane, vnwash'd Artificer, Cuts off his tale, and talkes of Arthurs death. View more context for this quotation a1727 Ballad on Quadrille viii The King of late..made, of many a Squire and Lord, An unwash'd Knight of Bath. 1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 152 Clubs..To which th' unwash'd artificer repairs. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. xxxvii All the unwashed artificers connected with literature. 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xviii Why should not beggars go unwashed? 1868 T. Wright Great Unwashed Pref. Others who..are by the unwashed workers looked upon as swells. 3. Not washed off or out. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > uncleaned > unwashed > of dirt unwashed1628 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iii. 94 Sweat unwash'd off [will] stick Vpon their new-shorne skins. 1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets (1863) ii. ⁋ 6 His happy Athenian associations gave a colour, unwashed out by tears, to his mind and works. B. n. People who are not usually in a clean state, regarded collectively; the ‘lower classes’. Frequently in the great unwashed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > collectively unwashed1830 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > the unwashed clobberiousness1577 unwashed1830 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. p. xix He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘lives cleanly’, (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed). 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. vi. 119 The ‘fat and greasy’, and the ‘great unwashed’, bowed and smiled their best. 1840 Tipperary Constitution 21 Aug. 2/3 The learned gentleman then briefly addressed the few unwashed, who were attracted to the scene. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 290 Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed. 1853 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. 920 A great portion of the unwashed, as well as the ‘unterrified’ left the hall. 1859 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 417 The ‘waters of instruction’ are to be plentifully supplied to the unwashed. 1868 T. Wright Great Unwashed Pref. Whenever..I speak of working men, or the working classes, it is in the ‘great-unwashed’ sense. Derivatives unˈwashedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > unwashed condition unwashedness1890 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. ii. 106 You can have a thorough wash-up at last, after all these days of unwashedness. 1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/2 Various perfumes of un~washedness and misery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.?a1390 |
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