| 单词 | moonshine in the water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoonshine in the water a. Appearance without substance; something unsubstantial or unreal; (now) esp. foolish or fanciful talk, ideas, plans, etc. Originally †moonshine in the water. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > mere appearance or image of something shadow?c1225 shade1297 phantomc1384 moonshine1468 fume1531 show1547 eggs in moonshine?1558 smoke1559 sign1597 ghost1613 umbra1635 parhelion1636 bogle1793 simulacrum1805 phantasmagoria1821 spectre1849 1468 in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 389 Syr Thomas Howys wer..made byleve and put in hope of the moone shone in the water and I wot nat what. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 865/1 For moone shyne in the water pour vne chose de riens. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 207 Thou now requests but Mooneshine in the water. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 6 Their continuall brawlings about Moone shine in the water. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. ii. 49 Our dissentions are about Moone-shine. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 28 Their..delectable Morsels will melt into Moonshines. 1781 Ld. McCartney Let. 25 Sept. in Private Corr. (1950 ) 1 Till that is settled the Treaty is mere moonshine. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. ii. ii. 58 There can be no honour here; for it has become a mere matter of moon-shine to be a member. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 96 Thae duds were a' o' the colour o' moonshine in the water, I'm thinking, Madge. 1841 B. Hall Patchwork II. viii. 155 I found the whole affair..a matter of moonshine. 1887 Spectator 3 Sept. 1173 As for all this talk about Federalism, it is moonshine. It means nothing practical at all. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage liii. 272 Telling you that philosophy was all moonshine. 1988 P. Pullman Shadow in North xix. 230 Whatever I said the other day..it was moonshine. < as lemmas |
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