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单词 water-caster
释义

water-caster

/ˈwɔːtəˌkɑːstə/ /ˈwɔːtəˌkastə/
noun
Derogatory. A person who diagnoses illness on the basis of the visual inspection of urine, a uroscopist; (more generally) a quack. Compare piss-prophet. In later use English regional ( northern ). Now historical.

Origin

Early 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Dekker (c1572–1632), playwright and pamphleteer. From water + caster.

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