单词 | water-gruelish |
释义 | > as lemmasˈwater-gruelish ˈwater-gruelish adj. now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1788 R. Bage James Wallace III. 130 In short, Miss Lamounde, (but let it be a secret between you and me) she seems a little water-gruelish. 1812 Lady Lyttelton Let. 28 Apr. in Corr. (1912) v. 132 I was of the greatest use in putting in a water-gruellish sort of observation every now and then, just to fill up the pauses. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xi. 77 Queen Rosma, grown weary after five years of the unenterprising water-gruelish Haliartes, in 738 casts her eye on his nephew. < as lemmas |
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