单词 | weather-wise |
释义 | weather-wiseadj.n. a. Skilled in prognostics of the weather. Also absol. as n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [adjective] > predicted (of weather) > skilled in weather prediction weather-wise1377 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > one who weather-wizard1596 weather-caster1607 weather-spya1631 weather-monger1656 weather-prophet1866 weather-sharp1884 weather-maker1888 weather-forecaster1900 weather-casterc1904 weather-wise1922 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 350 Wederwise shipmen. a1584 S. Borough in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 319 I maruelled why he departed so suddenly, and went ouer the shoales... But after I perceiued them to be weather wise. 1637 J. Taylor Drinke & Welcome sig. C3v Some by their cornes are wondrous Weather-wise. 1735 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 7 Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise. 1802 S. T. Coleridge Dejection in Morning Post 4 Oct. If the Bard was weather-wise, who made The grand Old Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vi. 105 Auguring rain to the minds of the weather-wise. 1866 A. Steinmetz Weathercasts 35 A certain weather-wise nobleman, Lord Portarlington, predicted the intensely hot summer of last year. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xv. 167 Are you weather-wise?—able to tell when the clouds will hold off or pelt? 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 378 Biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) i. 27 Some weather~wise fellowes, that coulde chaunge their opinions as the more and stronger part did chaunge theirs. 1917 S. Gwynn & G. M. Tuckwell Life Sir C. W. Dilke II. li. 313 He was weatherwise in the assembly, and knew the conditions which might lead to unforeseen disturbance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1377 |
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