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单词 moisty
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moistyadj.

Brit. /ˈmɔɪsti/, U.S. /ˈmɔɪsti/
Forms: Middle English moisti, Middle English mosty, Middle English moysti, Middle English–1600s moysty, Middle English– moisty, 1500s moistye, 1500s moystie, 1500s moystye, 1500s–1600s moistie; also Scottish 1900s– mousty.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moist adj., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < moist adj. or moist n. + -y suffix1.
1.
a. Moist, damp, wet. Now rare.Earliest attested in a field name, apparently with the sense ‘damp meadow’ (compare lea n.1).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective]
wetc900
moisty1386
nesha1387
dank?a1400
watery?a1439
sappy?a1500
dankish1540
spongy1600
sluiced1607
madid1615
humidious1630
uvid1656
madent1727
muggy1731
sockya1825
suckeny1878
1386 in K. Cameron Place-names Derbyshire (1959) II. 246 Mostylegh.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 230 Þe lenger tyme þey [sc. stalks of flax] beþ in suche moysty place, þe more hard þey beþ.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 164 (MED) Yf thow sette a plaunte..Putte in a lytel moysty molde.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 219 The bloode Is hotte and moysti.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 27 v The Lyuerworte that groweth in moystye marishes or standinge waters.
1592 Countess of Pembroke tr. R. Garnier Antonius iii. sig. L3v Nor yet the cruell murth'ring blade Warme in the moistie bowells made Of people pell mell dieng.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. D4 Amongst the ayre-bred moystie vapors throwne.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 404 The moysty and choaking heat.
a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 76 Upright poddock stools..grow in humid, moisty places.
1889 F. R. Stockton Ardis Claverden (1890) 372 Tossed out upon the moisty air.
1966–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 631/2 You want to get a good, moisty place [to plant tobacco].
1967 A. Carter Magic Toyshop iii. 69 He couldn't get the feel of her eyelids off his hands. Like water-lily petals, he kept on saying. White and moisty. But dead.
b. Of a season, day, etc.: having wet or damp weather; having a wet climate. Now chiefly in collocation with misty.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time)
wetc893
moista1398
waterya1398
moistya1500
waterish1545
washy1566
rotten1567
slabby1653
weety1658
late1673
fresh1790
slottery1790
soft1812
givey1829
juicy1837
sploshy1838
sposhy1842
slip-sloppya1845
splishy-splashyc1850
shabby1853
soppy1872
sappy1885
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 243 (MED) The tyme of weere is hote and moisti, like as the eyre is.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 37 A litle winde in a moystie day, stoppeth a shafte more than a good whiskynge wynde in a clere daye.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg4 The moystie night..Her deawy humour gan on th'earth to shed. View more context for this quotation
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 124 The bright-beam'd Tytan came..And with his flaming rayes did bring More warmth vnto the moisty spring.
1856 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 301 A misty, moisty morning.
1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother ii It is not doing the place justice to study it on a misty, moisty morning.
1894 P. Collier in Forum (U.S.) Aug. 731 A misty, moisty island [sc. England].
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 214 at Mousty A mousty mornin'.
1966 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 631/2 [When the air is very still, moist, and warm—it's] moisty.
1988 Church Times 22 July 3/4 On another misty, moisty day we discovered the eighteenth-century model village of Blanchland.
2. Of beer: new, fresh; = moist adj. 1d. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > new
moistc1390
moistyc1390
c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 60 For were it wyn or old or moisty ale That he hath dronke, he speketh in his nose.
c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 315 Or elles a draught of corny, moysty [v.r. mosty, moyste] ale.
3. Given to drinking. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking
drunkensomea1300
drunkelew1362
drunksomec1475
drunken1548
boozing1569
boozy1592
bousy1592
moisty1593
unsober1611
upsy-friesy1617
moist1619
sottish1632
swilling1633
bibacious1663
intemperate1680
swill-bellied1680
swill-down1693
wet1699
potative1737
compotatory1817
alcoholic1845
drinking1856
bibulous1861
on the drink1865
1593 ‘P. Foulface’ Bacchus Bountie sig. C2 Which beeing once tasted, dooth maruellously encrease a moystie appetite.

Derivatives

ˈmoistily adv. in a moisty manner; (in quot. 1927) tearfully.
ΚΠ
1927 H. V. Morton In Search of Eng. x. § 2 Three of those prim, sallow, enthusiastic, middle-aged lovers of England..were..regarding moistily the bare rooms in which Brewster and the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ were imprisoned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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