mouldyn.

Brit.

/ˈməʊldi/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊldi/

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Or perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: mouldy adj.¹, English mouldywarp , mouldwarp n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. In sense 1 perhaps < mouldy adj.¹, on account of the weapon being perceived as unethical, or perhaps shortened < mouldywarp, variant of mouldwarp n., because of the similarity of the animal burrowing underground to the weapon travelling under water (compare quot. 1962 at sense 1 and discussion in P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8, 1984) at cited word). In sense 2 probably a transferred use of sense 1.

British Navy slang (later also R.A.F.). Now rare.

1. A torpedo.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo

torpedo1776

Whitehead1872

fish-torpedo1878

mouldy1916

fish1925

torp1929

pickle1931

kipper1953

1916 M. T. Hainsselin In Northern Mists xvi. 62 A German submarine..kept one of the bug-traps bailed up..for a week by waiting..ready to squirt a mouldy at her directly she showed her nose outside... To fire a torpedo at her, of course!

1928 Observer 11 Mar. 17/4 The King of Afghanistan will be given a lesson in torpedo firing and himself discharge a ‘mouldy’ from one of L22's tubes.

1932 Flight 19 Aug. 777/1 At the same time, no doubt, the A.A. gunners on board are gleefully telling all and sundry how they simply riddled the ‘Horsleys’ with shells before ever a mouldy was dropped.

1945 D. Bolster Roll on my Twelve 136 Mouldy, torpedo. The more modern nickname is Fish or Tin-fish.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 78/2 Mouldy, torpedo. From the dialectal mouldiwarp, a mole. As the mole burrows under the earth, a torpedo runs under the sea.

2. A kind of dessert served in the canteen at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets

scrochat1448

gobbet riala1500

Portugal1560

sugar-pellet1591

muscadine1599

moscardino1616

rock candy1653

covering-seeds1687

lollipop1784

turn-over1798

lavender-sugar1810

humbug1825

kiss1825

elecampane1826

Gibraltar1831

yellow man1831

rose cake1834

cockle1835

maple candy1840

butterscotch1847

sponge candy1850

squib1851

honeycomb1857

marshmallow1857

motto kiss1858

fondant1861

coffee cream1868

candy-braid1870

candy bar1885

suckabob1888

nut bar1896

crackerjack1902

teiglach1903

red-hot1910

violet cream1912

mouldy1916

patty1916

lace1919

Tootsie Roll1925

sugar mouse1931

Parma1971

cinder toffee1979

1916 G. Franklin Naval Digression xii. 105 The various cadets engaged in stuffing themselves with ‘pinkmen’, ‘mouldies’..and suchlike vinos y comida.

1948 E. Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang Mouldy, a confection sold in the canteen at the R.N. College, Dartmouth.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 78/2 Mouldy,..confection popular at Dartmouth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mouldymoldyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈməʊldi/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊldi/

Forms: Middle English– mouldy, 1500s–1600s mouldie, 1500s– moldy (now North American), 1600s moldie, 1600s mowldy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.⁴, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < mould n.⁴ + -y suffix¹.

a. Overgrown or covered with mould. Hence: decaying.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty

fennyc1000

vinnyOE

mouleda1250

moulya1398

mouldena1400

spaked1438

vinniedc1450

mouldy1495

hoared1496

mustyc1503

foisty1519

mocha1522

hoary1530

hoar1544

mouldeda1552

mowsy1566

foistied1572

fustied1576

spaky1590

musted1632

mouldish1648

emucid1656

mucid1656

mungy1658

mouldly1678

foisted1688

mothery1697

vinnewya1722

rusty-fustya1790

musty-fusty1857

mucidous1866

blue-vinnied1880

blue-veined1898

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

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. xciii. 916 In an hote place and mouldy.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiii/2 Mouldie, mucidus.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 142 He liues vpon mowldy stewd pruins.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 104 Searching his scrip in expectation to have found in it mouldy bread.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 10 A Successive Title, Long, and Dark, Drawn from the Mouldy Rolls of Noah's Ark.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. i. i. 4 A suit of armour which..being mouldy and rust-eaten, had lain by, many long years, forgotten in a corner.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 418 To read engraven on the mouldy walls..his predecessor's tale.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 338 Books will not become mouldy in the neighbourhood of Russia leather.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 27 His nephew, standing on the mouldy staircase.

1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. Prol. 14 A bag of mouldy biscuits.

1931 C. L. T. Beeching Law's Grocer's Man. (ed. 3) 242/1 They must be kept in a dry and fresh room, turned every week and oiled with linseed oil when they begin to get mouldy.

1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs vii. 84 Covered over with old pack-mule tarps and moldy hay.

1982 R. Anderson Poacher's Son (1984) i. 3 He snatched the good orange from my hand and replaced it with the mouldy one from the crate.

b. Of, consisting of, or resembling mould.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [adjective]

mouldy1579

predacious1713

mucedinous1854

mucorinous1857

ustilaginous1857

mucoraceous1862

mucorioid1865

uredinous1865

mucorinious1874

mucorine1880

autoecious1882

heteroecious1882

metoecious1882

metoxenous1887

uredine1889

ustilagineous1889

mycorrhizal1900

mycorrhizic1904

sphacelial1909

rhynchosporium1918

mucorine1942

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 135 The mouldie mosse, which thee accloieth.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 88 His golden Fleece ore-grown with moldy hore.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fleur du vin, the mother of wine; the white, or mouldie spots that float on the top of old wine.

1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) i. 12 My Annals are in mouldy Mildews wrought.

a1719 J. Addison Milton's Stile Imitated 68 The walls On all sides furr'd with mouldy damps.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 18 His bones were black with many a crack, All black and bare,..save where with rust Of mouldy damps and charnel crust They're patch'd with purple and green.

1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 942 The formation of mouldy fungi.

1891 Cent. Mag. Nov. 60 The moldy blue bloom of the hemlock.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 16/3 Flies..may be seen..lying about in odd corners covered with a mouldy grey fur, which is called fly-mould.

1994 K. Kelly Out of Control iv. 98 Like a slime mold that assembled itself from moldy spots into a thrusting blob, an ecosystem coalesced into a stable superorganization.

2. figurative and in extended use.

a. Worn out with old age, decrepit; outmoded, antiquated; (also) tediously academic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed

rottena1382

marcid?a1425

bada1450

decayed1528

carious1530

mouldy1576

perished1587

decrepit1594

moskered1612

marcidious1656

mortified1673

ampery1736

daddocky1790

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 399 Very many obseruations out of rustie and mouldie antiquaries.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 121 Away you mouldie rogue, away.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 126 Ile thrust my knife in your mouldie chappes.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. D4^v With their mouldy tales out of Boccacio.

1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 14 Pox of her old mouldy Chops.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 43 Turning over the moth-eaten criticks, or the mouldy councils.

1780 W. Cowper Let. 6 Aug. (1979) I. 374 It is to be hoped that the present Century has nothing to do with the Mouldy Opinions of the last.

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 65 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xxi. 372 This dried-up pedant..groping after his mouldy futilities.

1889 Spectator 2 Nov. 590/2 The ancient joke about smelling the paper-knife is one of the mouldiest of witticisms.

1905 W. James in McClure's Mag. May 7/1 He denounced me for the musty and mouldy and generally ignoble academicism of my character.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 191 Tripp pulled the bell at the door of the mouldy red-brick boarding-house.

1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 57/1 He seems to be plagiarising himself, reaching back into earlier seasons to borrow mouldy plot devices.

b. colloquial. Wretched, poor, miserable, gloomy; boring, depressing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]

evil971

lowc1175

poor?c1225

feeblec1275

vilea1300

petty1372

unthende1377

secondary1386

petitc1390

unmeeta1393

illa1400

commonc1400

coarse1424

indigent1426

unlikelyc1450

lesser1464

gross1474

naughty1526

inferior1531

reprobate?1545

slender1577

unlikely1578

puny1579

under1580

wooden1592

sordid1596

puisne1598

provant1601

subministrant1604

inferious1607

sublunary1624

indifferent1638

undermatched1642

unworthy1646

underly1648

turncoated1650

female1652

undergraduate1655

farandinical1675

baddishc1736

ungenerous1745

understrapping1762

tinnified1794

demi-semi1805

shabby1805

dicky1819

poor white1821

tin-pot1838

deterior1848

substandard1850

crumby1859

cheesy1863

po'1866

not-quite1867

rocky1873

mouldy1876

low-grade1878

sketchy1878

midget1879

junky1880

ullaged1892

abysmal1904

bodgie1905

junk1908

crap1936

ropy1941

bodger1945

two-star1951

tripey1955

manky1958

schlocky1960

cack1978

wank1991

bowf1994

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious

dreicha1300

alangec1330

joylessa1400

tedious1412

wearifulc1454

weary1465

laboriousa1475

tiresome?a1513

irksome1513

wearisome1530

woodena1566

irkful1570

flat1573

leaden1593

barren1600

soaked1600

unlively1608

dulla1616

irking1629

drearisome1633

drear1645

plumbous1651

fatigable1656

dreary1667

uncurious1685

unenlivened1692

blank1726

disinteresting1737

stupid1748

stagnant1749

trist?1756

vegetable1757

borish1766

uninteresting1769

unenlivening1774

oorie1787

wearying1796

subjectless1803

yawny1805

wearing1811

stuffy1813

sloomy1820

tediousome1823

arid1827

lacklustrous1834

boring1839

featureless1839

slow1840

sodden1853

ennuying1858

dusty1860

cabbagy1861

old1864

mouldy1876

yawnful1878

drab1880

dehydrated1884

interestless1886

jay1889

boresome1895

stodgy1895

stuffy1895

yawnsome1900

sludgy1901

draggy1922

blah1937

nowhere1940

drack1945

stupefactive1970

schleppy1978

wack1986

1876 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1903) I. iii. 117 I have had to fight against pretty mouldy health.

1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 362/1 Mouldy,..worthless: e.g., a mouldy offer.

1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 93 I slogged like that for Nancy... We could have got along on a major's pay, out there. Just got along! And then the blasted girl goes and gets rotten titles and mouldy houses to her back on the day the bottom drops out of me.

1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph iv. xxiii. 322 She looked more wan and frail than ever and he exclaimed: ‘You look very mouldy.’

1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart i. 95 Do please come home soon, for it's mouldy without you.

1956 A. Huxley Let. 25 Dec. (1969) 814 One feels a bit low and mouldy after those bouts of flu.

1962 Guardian 20 Jan. 3/6 Local support for the event had deteriorated, but it did not deserve to be called ‘mouldy’.

1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 9 Sept. 92/1 The average cabby is a moldy old fascist.

1989 Funny Fortn. 7–20 Oct. 46 Rotters! The others will all be reading comics in bed while I do mouldy sums!

1992 Playboy Oct. 38/3 Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.

Compounds

mouldy-looking adj.

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1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 173 You enter a mouldy-looking room.

1982 R. Rankin Brentford Triangle xvii. 122 He was really growing quite attached to the mouldy-looking quadruped.

mouldy-minded adj.

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1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd vi. vii. 300 The rawest Dynast..Will..Down-topple to the dust like soldier Saul, And Europe's mouldy-minded oligarchs Be propped anew.

mouldy-smelling adj.

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1839–40 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xiv. 96 Groping their way through one or two dark and mouldy-smelling vaults, the party ascended a flight of steps.

1993 I. Banks Complicity (BNC) 137 The ballroom is scattered with cheap wooden chairs, tables, rolls of ancient, mouldy-smelling carpets, [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mouldymoldyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈməʊldi/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊldi/, Scottish English

/ˈmoldɪ/

Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– mouldy, 1800s mowdy (English regional), 1900s– moldy (North American); also Scottish 1800s mouldie, 1900s– möldie (Shetland), 1900s– muildy, 1900s– müldie (Shetland), 1900s– müldy (Shetland).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < mould n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier mouly adj.

Now chiefly Scottish and English regional.

Of the nature of mould (mould n.¹); esp. of the nature of fine or loose soil; earthy, dirty. Also: of the nature of a grave or graveyard (cf. mould n.¹ 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > organic > mould

mouldy1572

stapled1773

mouldish1866

1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus i. ii. f. 3 Such as are, by sword or fate decayde, That dying so in mouldy earth, their liuelesse corps be layde.

1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 20 That the earth be mouldy..that it may run among the small tangles without straining or bruising.

1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §2070. 312 Species [of soils]. Loamy, Peaty, Mouldy.

1848 W. H. Ainsworth Lancs. Witches I. ix There is a mowdy air about him, that gies one the shivers to see.

1873 A. G. Murdoch Lilts on Doric Lyre 20 Cough a mouldie kirk-yaird spittle.

1900 Shetland News 20 Oct. 7/3 Shü huv'd a weet möldie kishie, half foo o' grice mites, apo' da flör.

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xii. 201 Turning her head that she might not see the moldy earth falling upon the pitiful little bundle, she breathed a prayer.

1949 New Shetlander No. 17. 2 The surface of the earth is scraped and the fine dry brown earth is gathered into a heap and built around with faels and stones to form a müldy koose.

1976 R. Bulter Shaela 31 He..sneets his nose atween twa müldy fingers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† mouldyadj.³

Forms: 1500s moldye.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muled adj.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < muled adj.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare later muley adj.¹

Obsolete. rare.

= muled adj.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > blain or chilblain

kibedc1500

kiby1523

muled1551

mouldy1578

chilblained1602

muley1610

chilblainy1843

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxviii. 646 The inner part of Squilla..is applyed with great profite to..kibed or moldyeheeles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† mouldyadj.⁴

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.³, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < mould n.³ + -y suffix¹. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mō^u·ldi) /ˈməʊldɪ/.

Obsolete. rare.

Of a sheep: well-shaped. Cf. mould n.³ 4a.

ΚΠ

1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 475 Mr. F.'s first pen [of ewes] were very ‘mouldy’, but hardly big enough.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

n.1916

adj.¹1495

adj.²1572

adj.³1578

adj.⁴1863

单词	mouldy
释义	mouldyn. Brit. /ˈməʊldi/, U.S. /ˈmoʊldi/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Or perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: mouldy adj.¹, English mouldywarp , mouldwarp n. Etymology: Origin uncertain. In sense 1 perhaps < mouldy adj.¹, on account of the weapon being perceived as unethical, or perhaps shortened < mouldywarp, variant of mouldwarp n., because of the similarity of the animal burrowing underground to the weapon travelling under water (compare quot. 1962 at sense 1 and discussion in P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8, 1984) at cited word). In sense 2 probably a transferred use of sense 1. British Navy slang (later also R.A.F.). Now rare. 1. A torpedo. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo torpedo1776 Whitehead1872 fish-torpedo1878 mouldy1916 fish1925 torp1929 pickle1931 kipper1953 1916 M. T. Hainsselin In Northern Mists xvi. 62 A German submarine..kept one of the bug-traps bailed up..for a week by waiting..ready to squirt a mouldy at her directly she showed her nose outside... To fire a torpedo at her, of course! 1928 Observer 11 Mar. 17/4 The King of Afghanistan will be given a lesson in torpedo firing and himself discharge a ‘mouldy’ from one of L22's tubes. 1932 Flight 19 Aug. 777/1 At the same time, no doubt, the A.A. gunners on board are gleefully telling all and sundry how they simply riddled the ‘Horsleys’ with shells before ever a mouldy was dropped. 1945 D. Bolster Roll on my Twelve 136 Mouldy, torpedo. The more modern nickname is Fish or Tin-fish. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 78/2 Mouldy, torpedo. From the dialectal mouldiwarp, a mole. As the mole burrows under the earth, a torpedo runs under the sea. 2. A kind of dessert served in the canteen at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets scrochat1448 gobbet riala1500 Portugal1560 sugar-pellet1591 muscadine1599 moscardino1616 rock candy1653 covering-seeds1687 lollipop1784 turn-over1798 lavender-sugar1810 humbug1825 kiss1825 elecampane1826 Gibraltar1831 yellow man1831 rose cake1834 cockle1835 maple candy1840 butterscotch1847 sponge candy1850 squib1851 honeycomb1857 marshmallow1857 motto kiss1858 fondant1861 coffee cream1868 candy-braid1870 candy bar1885 suckabob1888 nut bar1896 crackerjack1902 teiglach1903 red-hot1910 violet cream1912 mouldy1916 patty1916 lace1919 Tootsie Roll1925 sugar mouse1931 Parma1971 cinder toffee1979 1916 G. Franklin Naval Digression xii. 105 The various cadets engaged in stuffing themselves with ‘pinkmen’, ‘mouldies’..and suchlike vinos y comida. 1948 E. Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang Mouldy, a confection sold in the canteen at the R.N. College, Dartmouth. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 78/2 Mouldy,..confection popular at Dartmouth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mouldymoldyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈməʊldi/, U.S. /ˈmoʊldi/ Forms: Middle English– mouldy, 1500s–1600s mouldie, 1500s– moldy (now North American), 1600s moldie, 1600s mowldy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.⁴, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < mould n.⁴ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Overgrown or covered with mould. Hence: decaying. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty fennyc1000 vinnyOE mouleda1250 moulya1398 mouldena1400 spaked1438 vinniedc1450 mouldy1495 hoared1496 mustyc1503 foisty1519 mocha1522 hoary1530 hoar1544 mouldeda1552 mowsy1566 foistied1572 fustied1576 spaky1590 musted1632 mouldish1648 emucid1656 mucid1656 mungy1658 mouldly1678 foisted1688 mothery1697 vinnewya1722 rusty-fustya1790 musty-fusty1857 mucidous1866 blue-vinnied1880 blue-veined1898 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 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. xciii. 916 In an hote place and mouldy. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiii/2 Mouldie, mucidus. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 142 He liues vpon mowldy stewd pruins. View more context for this quotation 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 104 Searching his scrip in expectation to have found in it mouldy bread. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 10 A Successive Title, Long, and Dark, Drawn from the Mouldy Rolls of Noah's Ark. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. i. i. 4 A suit of armour which..being mouldy and rust-eaten, had lain by, many long years, forgotten in a corner. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 418 To read engraven on the mouldy walls..his predecessor's tale. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 338 Books will not become mouldy in the neighbourhood of Russia leather. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 27 His nephew, standing on the mouldy staircase. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. Prol. 14 A bag of mouldy biscuits. 1931 C. L. T. Beeching Law's Grocer's Man. (ed. 3) 242/1 They must be kept in a dry and fresh room, turned every week and oiled with linseed oil when they begin to get mouldy. 1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs vii. 84 Covered over with old pack-mule tarps and moldy hay. 1982 R. Anderson Poacher's Son (1984) i. 3 He snatched the good orange from my hand and replaced it with the mouldy one from the crate. b. Of, consisting of, or resembling mould. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [adjective] mouldy1579 predacious1713 mucedinous1854 mucorinous1857 ustilaginous1857 mucoraceous1862 mucorioid1865 uredinous1865 mucorinious1874 mucorine1880 autoecious1882 heteroecious1882 metoecious1882 metoxenous1887 uredine1889 ustilagineous1889 mycorrhizal1900 mycorrhizic1904 sphacelial1909 rhynchosporium1918 mucorine1942 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 135 The mouldie mosse, which thee accloieth. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 88 His golden Fleece ore-grown with moldy hore. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fleur du vin, the mother of wine; the white, or mouldie spots that float on the top of old wine. 1706 S. Garth Dispensary (ed. 6) i. 12 My Annals are in mouldy Mildews wrought. a1719 J. Addison Milton's Stile Imitated 68 The walls On all sides furr'd with mouldy damps. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 18 His bones were black with many a crack, All black and bare,..save where with rust Of mouldy damps and charnel crust They're patch'd with purple and green. 1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 942 The formation of mouldy fungi. 1891 Cent. Mag. Nov. 60 The moldy blue bloom of the hemlock. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 16/3 Flies..may be seen..lying about in odd corners covered with a mouldy grey fur, which is called fly-mould. 1994 K. Kelly Out of Control iv. 98 Like a slime mold that assembled itself from moldy spots into a thrusting blob, an ecosystem coalesced into a stable superorganization. 2. figurative and in extended use. a. Worn out with old age, decrepit; outmoded, antiquated; (also) tediously academic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed rottena1382 marcid?a1425 bada1450 decayed1528 carious1530 mouldy1576 perished1587 decrepit1594 moskered1612 marcidious1656 mortified1673 ampery1736 daddocky1790 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 399 Very many obseruations out of rustie and mouldie antiquaries. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 121 Away you mouldie rogue, away. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 126 Ile thrust my knife in your mouldie chappes. View more context for this quotation 1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. D4^v With their mouldy tales out of Boccacio. View more context for this quotation 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 14 Pox of her old mouldy Chops. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 43 Turning over the moth-eaten criticks, or the mouldy councils. 1780 W. Cowper Let. 6 Aug. (1979) I. 374 It is to be hoped that the present Century has nothing to do with the Mouldy Opinions of the last. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. ii. 65 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions, a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xxi. 372 This dried-up pedant..groping after his mouldy futilities. 1889 Spectator 2 Nov. 590/2 The ancient joke about smelling the paper-knife is one of the mouldiest of witticisms. 1905 W. James in McClure's Mag. May 7/1 He denounced me for the musty and mouldy and generally ignoble academicism of my character. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 191 Tripp pulled the bell at the door of the mouldy red-brick boarding-house. 1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 57/1 He seems to be plagiarising himself, reaching back into earlier seasons to borrow mouldy plot devices. b. colloquial. Wretched, poor, miserable, gloomy; boring, depressing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] evil971 lowc1175 poor?c1225 feeblec1275 vilea1300 petty1372 unthende1377 secondary1386 petitc1390 unmeeta1393 illa1400 commonc1400 coarse1424 indigent1426 unlikelyc1450 lesser1464 gross1474 naughty1526 inferior1531 reprobate?1545 slender1577 unlikely1578 puny1579 under1580 wooden1592 sordid1596 puisne1598 provant1601 subministrant1604 inferious1607 sublunary1624 indifferent1638 undermatched1642 unworthy1646 underly1648 turncoated1650 female1652 undergraduate1655 farandinical1675 baddishc1736 ungenerous1745 understrapping1762 tinnified1794 demi-semi1805 shabby1805 dicky1819 poor white1821 tin-pot1838 deterior1848 substandard1850 crumby1859 cheesy1863 po'1866 not-quite1867 rocky1873 mouldy1876 low-grade1878 sketchy1878 midget1879 junky1880 ullaged1892 abysmal1904 bodgie1905 junk1908 crap1936 ropy1941 bodger1945 two-star1951 tripey1955 manky1958 schlocky1960 cack1978 wank1991 bowf1994 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious dreicha1300 alangec1330 joylessa1400 tedious1412 wearifulc1454 weary1465 laboriousa1475 tiresome?a1513 irksome1513 wearisome1530 woodena1566 irkful1570 flat1573 leaden1593 barren1600 soaked1600 unlively1608 dulla1616 irking1629 drearisome1633 drear1645 plumbous1651 fatigable1656 dreary1667 uncurious1685 unenlivened1692 blank1726 disinteresting1737 stupid1748 stagnant1749 trist?1756 vegetable1757 borish1766 uninteresting1769 unenlivening1774 oorie1787 wearying1796 subjectless1803 yawny1805 wearing1811 stuffy1813 sloomy1820 tediousome1823 arid1827 lacklustrous1834 boring1839 featureless1839 slow1840 sodden1853 ennuying1858 dusty1860 cabbagy1861 old1864 mouldy1876 yawnful1878 drab1880 dehydrated1884 interestless1886 jay1889 boresome1895 stodgy1895 stuffy1895 yawnsome1900 sludgy1901 draggy1922 blah1937 nowhere1940 drack1945 stupefactive1970 schleppy1978 wack1986 1876 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1903) I. iii. 117 I have had to fight against pretty mouldy health. 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 362/1 Mouldy,..worthless: e.g., a mouldy offer. 1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 93 I slogged like that for Nancy... We could have got along on a major's pay, out there. Just got along! And then the blasted girl goes and gets rotten titles and mouldy houses to her back on the day the bottom drops out of me. 1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph iv. xxiii. 322 She looked more wan and frail than ever and he exclaimed: ‘You look very mouldy.’ 1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart i. 95 Do please come home soon, for it's mouldy without you. 1956 A. Huxley Let. 25 Dec. (1969) 814 One feels a bit low and mouldy after those bouts of flu. 1962 Guardian 20 Jan. 3/6 Local support for the event had deteriorated, but it did not deserve to be called ‘mouldy’. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 9 Sept. 92/1 The average cabby is a moldy old fascist. 1989 Funny Fortn. 7–20 Oct. 46 Rotters! The others will all be reading comics in bed while I do mouldy sums! 1992 Playboy Oct. 38/3 Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Compounds mouldy-looking adj. ΚΠ 1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 173 You enter a mouldy-looking room. 1982 R. Rankin Brentford Triangle xvii. 122 He was really growing quite attached to the mouldy-looking quadruped. mouldy-minded adj. ΚΠ 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd vi. vii. 300 The rawest Dynast..Will..Down-topple to the dust like soldier Saul, And Europe's mouldy-minded oligarchs Be propped anew. mouldy-smelling adj. ΚΠ 1839–40 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xiv. 96 Groping their way through one or two dark and mouldy-smelling vaults, the party ascended a flight of steps. 1993 I. Banks Complicity (BNC) 137 The ballroom is scattered with cheap wooden chairs, tables, rolls of ancient, mouldy-smelling carpets, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mouldymoldyadj.² Brit. /ˈməʊldi/, U.S. /ˈmoʊldi/, Scottish English /ˈmoldɪ/ Forms: 1500s–1600s 1800s– mouldy, 1800s mowdy (English regional), 1900s– moldy (North American); also Scottish 1800s mouldie, 1900s– möldie (Shetland), 1900s– muildy, 1900s– müldie (Shetland), 1900s– müldy (Shetland). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < mould n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier mouly adj. Now chiefly Scottish and English regional. Of the nature of mould (mould n.¹); esp. of the nature of fine or loose soil; earthy, dirty. Also: of the nature of a grave or graveyard (cf. mould n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > organic > mould mouldy1572 stapled1773 mouldish1866 1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus i. ii. f. 3 Such as are, by sword or fate decayde, That dying so in mouldy earth, their liuelesse corps be layde. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 20 That the earth be mouldy..that it may run among the small tangles without straining or bruising. 1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §2070. 312 Species [of soils]. Loamy, Peaty, Mouldy. 1848 W. H. Ainsworth Lancs. Witches I. ix There is a mowdy air about him, that gies one the shivers to see. 1873 A. G. Murdoch Lilts on Doric Lyre 20 Cough a mouldie kirk-yaird spittle. 1900 Shetland News 20 Oct. 7/3 Shü huv'd a weet möldie kishie, half foo o' grice mites, apo' da flör. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xii. 201 Turning her head that she might not see the moldy earth falling upon the pitiful little bundle, she breathed a prayer. 1949 New Shetlander No. 17. 2 The surface of the earth is scraped and the fine dry brown earth is gathered into a heap and built around with faels and stones to form a müldy koose. 1976 R. Bulter Shaela 31 He..sneets his nose atween twa müldy fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mouldyadj.³ Forms: 1500s moldye. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muled adj.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < muled adj.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare later muley adj.¹ Obsolete. rare. = muled adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > blain or chilblain kibedc1500 kiby1523 muled1551 mouldy1578 chilblained1602 muley1610 chilblainy1843 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxviii. 646 The inner part of Squilla..is applyed with great profite to..kibed or moldyeheeles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mouldyadj.⁴ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mould n.³, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < mould n.³ + -y suffix¹. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mō^u·ldi) /ˈməʊldɪ/. Obsolete. rare. Of a sheep: well-shaped. Cf. mould n.³ 4a. ΚΠ 1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 475 Mr. F.'s first pen [of ewes] were very ‘mouldy’, but hardly big enough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1916adj.¹1495adj.²1572adj.³1578adj.⁴1863
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