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单词 wet-shod
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wet-shodadj.

Brit. /ˈwɛtʃɒd/, U.S. /ˈwɛtˌʃɑd/
Forms: α. Middle English wete-schood, wete-shoed, wete-shode; Middle English wet-schoede, wet-schode, wet-shood ( whetshood), 1500s -shoode, 1600s -shooed; Middle English watschoed, watschood. β. Middle English–1500s wete-shodde, Middle English wate-shodd; Middle English– wet-shod (Middle English -schod, 1600s -shodde; Middle English wadsshod, 1600s ? wet-shot). (Also in many dialect forms: see Eng. Dial. Dict.)
Etymology: < wete, wate wet adj. + shoed adj., shod adj.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
a. Having the feet wet.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > having wet feet
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α.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 1 Wolleward and wete~shoed went I forth after.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 14 And ȝut is wynter for hem wors, for wet-shood þei gangen.
?a1400 Arthur 469 Þere men were wetschoede All of brayn & of blode.
a1470 W. Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 207 They fulle ungoodely smote owte the heddys of the pypys and hoggs hedys of wyne, that men wente wete-schode in wyne.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. v. 121 Moses foretold that he should be wetshooed in oile.
β. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 161 And ȝit is wynter for hem worse, for wete-shodde thei gange.1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 1 Wo-werie and wetschod wente ich forth after.c1440 Alphabet of Tales 172 A preste þat hight Stephan on a tyme was wate-shodd.a1510 J. Stanbridge Vulgaria (W. de W.) B vj I am wete shodde, Pedes humectant.1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxx. sig. M.iv Beware of takyng colde in the legge, or rydyng, or goynge wetshod.1592 J. Lyly Gallathea i. iv. sig. B4 Ile warrant by this time he is wetshod.1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 39 Scarse a man but wet-shod went in gore.1657 T. M. Life Satyrical Puppy 10 They which followed the Coffin to buriall, went wetshod in those affectionate Teares.1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 136 So he went over [the river] at last, not much above wet-shod . View more context for this quotation1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. li. 320 Your Billy has not yet been accustom'd to be wet-shod.1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 41 I passed the stream several times without being wet-shod.1825– in many dialect glossaries (cf. Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
b. figurative (or in figurative context).
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1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 143 You seeme..to wade continually wetshood in the lake of this miserable Worlde.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B j b He will make their wits wetshod, if the ale haue his swift current.
1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. G4 All my hopes are seame-rent, and go wetshod.
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. i. sig. E5, in Five New Playes (1653) Virtue goes often wetshod, and is forc'd to be cobled up with base means, to hold out water and cold necessity.
16.. Times 1 in Cleveland's Wks. (1687) 239 To speak in wet~shod Eyes, and drowned Looks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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