| 单词 | water fight |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater fight water fight n. †(a) a battle that takes place on water (obsolete); (b) a fight, usually a play-fight, in which the participants throw, squirt, or splash water at each other. ΚΠ 1610 A. Munday Londons Loue 23 In the euening..it was expected that the water Fight & Fire workes should haue bin perfourmed. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 35 In such a various, and floating water-fight as was to be expected. 1842 N.Y. Herald 28 Apr. No. 2 [company] directed her pipe in the direction of No. 5's men, thereby returning the compliment of letting them ‘taste a little of fresh water’. Both parties..fell to in good earnest and had a regular ‘water fight’. 1880 Rose-Belford's Canad. Monthly Apr. 407/2 Sense of enjoyment in being ‘in the midst of it’, like children in a ‘water-fight’. 1903 R. V. Winterburn Spanish in Southwest xviii. 178 When the eggs gave out, a stormy water fight followed until everybody was drenched. 1957 C. Capa & M. Pines Retarded Children can be Helped ix. 134 ‘O.K.,’ he says, ‘now we'll have a water fight.’ The boys obviously enjoy this, whooping as they get wet. 2006 Men's Health Aug. 27/2 Innocent splishy-splashy water fights have an invariable habit of ending in an all-out hosepipe apocalypse. < as lemmas |
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