| 单词 | wet through, to the skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswet through, to the skin c. with prefixed intensive participle, as wringing wet (see wringing adj. 1b), dripping wet, †dropping wet. wet through, to the skin: having one's clothes completely saturated (cf. wet v. 4c). ΘΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out wringing wet1570 dropping wet1605 dripping wet1835 1526 100 Merry Tales No. 82 (facs.) 22 b There fel a good showre of rayn that the skoler was well wasshyd and wete to ye skyn. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367v/2 Wherwith they made hem stately fires great To dry their clothes yt were wringing weat. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 146 Dropping wet..I returne to land Laden with spoiles. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Traversé,..wet through, or (as we say) to the skinne. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 12 I don't believe..that they were ever wet to the skin in their lives. 1770 J. Wesley Jrnl. 16 Apr. We..got into a Scotch mist, and were dropping wet. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 61 But all this does not make it the more agreeable to get wet through. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xiii Some dripping wet, having fallen into the river. 1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 359 The last eighteen miles it rained like fury, and I reached Hartford wet through. 1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 343 The rain set in..so heavily, that in half an hour I was wet to the skin. to wet through, to the skin 4. To make moist or damp by exposure to rain, by a fall into water, or the like. to wet through, to the skin: to drench the clothes of (a person). extracted from wetv. a. Said of water, rain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > by exposure to water or rain wet1297 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6578 Þat water..wax euere uaste,..& watte is sson & is vet. a1300 Cursor Mundi 23685 Waters þat wete þan cristes flexs. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. II. 25 Þe water wolde..wete [MS. γ weete] al her cloþes. a1500 R. Henryson Ressoning betuix Aige & Yowth 4 in Poems (1981) 170 Perly droppis of the balmy schouris Thir widdis grene had with thair watter wete. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 780/2 In the begynnyng of the yere the dewe weteth the grounde swetely. 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (Bond) III. 394 We care not for a Scottish mist, though it wet vs to the skin. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 218 Men..of as bad a nature and base a moulde as euer water wette, or winde dried. 1658 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 57 Wee had not above 4 shots of powder and that the worst that euer water wet. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 509 These Waters in some places, breaking in the fall, wett us as if we had pas'd through a mist. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 304 The Place was not deep, but it wetted me all over. 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain v. 57 The clouds wetted me as they passed along. 1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) v. 179 During the night we had two smart showers of rain, which..wetted us through. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 121 ‘It doesn't take much to wet you and me through, Mr. Crowl,’ said Newman, laying his hand upon the lappel of his threadbare coat. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 73 If a capillary tube be plunged in a liquid which wets it. 1874 March. Dufferin Canad. Jrnl. (1891) 171 A thunder-shower..which wetted us to the skin. 1884 Law Times Rep. 51 229/2 The water..soaked under the wall and wetted the mud below it. b. absol. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > be wet [verb (intransitive)] > make wet wetc1330 moistc1400 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10340 Wyþ rysyng wawes,..Fer aboute hym wil he [the lake] wete. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 10343 Þe wawes þat so wetes. a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems v. 44 All is not gold that gleitis..Nor water all that weitis. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 26 The propertie of raine is to wet, and fire to burne. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 373 All they ever have is a dew, which is so slender it never wets at all. 1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 163 Though every wetting Liquor be fluid, yet every fluid body does not wet. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 82 The purest water wets soonest and most. c. passive. Often to be wet through, (also †thorough or through wet), wet to the skin (cf. 4a).The form wet of the past participle is sometimes difficult to distinguish from wet adj. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > very wet [phrase] > having wet clothes to be wet throughc1400 wet to the skin1535 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)] > a person's clothes wet1820 c1400 tr. Higden VII. 151 In processe of tyme þat body y-wette wiþ dewy droppes knewe þe comoun corrupcioun of dedly men. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 12942 So faste doun the water ȝet, That thei were alle thorow wet. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 129 The Newe making of a last of gonnepoudre wett in saltwater. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. iv. B With the dew of heauen shall he be wet. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 99v But if he had been wetted from toppe to toe, no man standyng by to see it, then had he been miserable in veraye deede. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 149 As the drie ground that thirstes after a showr Seemes to reioyce when it is well iwet. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F To haue him stand in the raine tyll he was thorough wet. 1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 44 So that the miserable Stipend..will hardly buy wood to make a fire for him when hee comes home to dry him, when hee is through wet. 1659 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 141 Hee..was wett to the skin before he came half way. 1759 S. Johnson Idler 25 Aug. 265 He..heard with great delight a shower, by which he was not wet, rattling among the branches. a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1767) IV. 53 The bottom of that vile ditch into which he had fallen was full of water, and he had been wet quite through. 1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 36 I had been wet to the skin in the afternoon. 1820 R. Southey Life Wesley I. 78 Having slept on the floor one night, because his bed had been wetted in a storm. 1842 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 78 Some of the compressed trenails had been wetted by accident, and could not be afterwards driven into the holes in the chairs. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 8 Apr. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 476 We were caught in two or three showers..but got back..without being very much wetted. 1898 A. Balfour To Arms vii The street was paved with large, rounded stones, which..were splashed and wetted by dirty water thrown from above. 1904 A. N. Cooper Quaint Talks 10 Few things have struck people as more wonderful than how I have survived being wet through so often. < as lemmas |
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