| 释义 |
soap-sud rare.
[Back-formation from next.]
= soap-suds. Chiefly in attrib. use.
1727Boyer Dict. Royal i. s.v. Eau, Eau de Savonnage, soap-sud. Ibid. s.v. Savonnage. 1802 Spirit Public Jrnls. VI. 278 Your air-balloon sunk to soap-sud bubbles, when compared to it [sc. an eclipse]. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 74 The common soap-sud bubbles of children.
Hence ˈsoap-suddy a.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 1007 The soap-suddy waves in a wash-hand basin. 1850S. Laing Obs. Europ. People xiii. 331 Its water is of a milky, greenish, or soap-suddy hue. |