请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 mildewed
释义

mildewedadj.

Brit. /ˈmɪldjuːd/, /ˈmɪldʒuːd/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌd(j)ud/
Forms: see mildew n. and -ed suffix2; also 1500s mylle dewed.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mildew n., -ed suffix2; mildew v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Originally < mildew n. + -ed suffix2; in later use chiefly < mildew v. + -ed suffix1.
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
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/12 0:27:13