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单词 well-scrubbed
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well-scrubbedadj.

Brit. /ˌwɛlˈskrʌbd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈskrəbd/
Forms: see well adv. and n.4 and scrubbed adj.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., scrubbed adj.2
Etymology: < well adv. + scrubbed adj.2
That has been thoroughly scrubbed or cleaned. Also: of highly presentable appearance.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scouring, scrubbing, or rubbing > [adjective] > scoured or scrubbed
scouredc1450
well-scrubbed1793
scrubbed1870
1793 R. Graves Reveries of Solitude 104 Against the well-scrub'd post reclin'd the sage.
1837 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 June Her Welsh carpet, as she called the well scrubbed board floors, without a spot upon them.
1857 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1858) 3 i. 63 The whole of the bedsteads and the flooring looked clean and well-scrubbed.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 74 A well scrubbed kitchen.
1976 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor on Job iii. 18 A small, round, well-scrubbed looking man.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xxvii. 229 She looked much too sophisticated for our preppy, well-scrubbed suburb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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