单词 | mildewed |
释义 | mildewedadj. 1. Affected by mildew. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty > mildewed mildewed1552 mildewy1823 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylle dewed, rubiginosus. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 63 Like a mildewed eare. View more context for this quotation ?1718 A. Pope Corr. (1956) I. 509 Two or three mill-dew'd pictures of mouldy ancestors. 1779 Farmer's Mag. May 157 Tuesday's rain had a remarkable effect on the mildewed wheat... it became plump. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 232 Great care should be taken that no mildewed straw is carried in the manure used for corn. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxii. 179 Here and there, a mildewed jessamine or honeysuckle hung raggedly from some ornamental support. 1897 A. J. C. Hare Let. 29 Aug. in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxx. 472 The mildewed rooms have some scanty remnants of their old furniture. 1939 X. Herbert Capricornia (new ed.) ix. 122 The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands. 1968 S. L. Elliott Rusty Bugles in E. Hanger 3 Austral. Plays i. iv. 56 A bookshelf behind has about thirty mildewed library books. 1988 Gardening from Which? Aug. 250/3 Don't plant mildewed bulbs if they are soft. 2. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > musty or mouldy fennyc1000 vinnyOE mouleda1250 moulya1398 mouldena1400 spaked1438 vinniedc1450 mouldy1495 hoared1496 mustyc1503 foisty1519 hoary1530 moskin1531 hoar1544 mouldeda1552 foistied1572 mustied1572 fustied1576 spaky1590 mildewed1605 musted1632 mucid1656 mungy1658 foisted1688 vinnewya1722 mochy1825 musty-smelling1852 musty-fusty1857 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan iii. i. 128 Tisse. Fayth Ioyce is a foolish bitter creature. Crisp. A pretty mildewed wench she is. Tisse. And faire. a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 24 His hypocritical Entreaties and mildew'd Promises. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 149 Scarcely had hee entred that Brothell-bed, or enjoy'd his seere and meldew'd Mistresse. 1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 7 Sept. 3/2 As for my long winded Friends and mildewed Chaps, I will have nothing to say to them, except they bring that Balsam that prevents the Gripes. 1835 W. D. Gallagher Erato ii. 40 And from Oblivion's gelid bed The mildewed hopes of youth are waking. 1876 J. B. Warren Soldier of Fortune ii. iv. 146 Or shall I treasure this, and bear it in With crawling gait and mildewed deference, Mock-humble, to his majesty; and speak? 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 32 It'll be a better world when we quit being fools about some mildewed town or ten acres of swampland just because we happened to be born there. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 56 Worse than death The palsied soul, the mildewed brain. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 161 Juvenile repugnance continues to be expressed by the old standbys:..mardy, mildewed, mingy, misery-making, [etc.]. 1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 76/1 A script by playwright Hugh Leonard..aims to be charmingly old hat but is often merely mildewed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1552 |
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