单词 | moisty |
释义 | moistyadj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1386 |
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