单词 | muddied |
释义 | muddiedadj. 1. Covered with mud, muddy; (of water) discoloured and made cloudy by the presence of soil or mud; turbid. muddied oaf n. (often in allusion to quot. 1902; cf. muddy oaf n. at muddy adj. and n.2 Compounds 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque > specific muddy or turbid druvya1300 drublya1340 oozya1398 feculent1471 troublous1495 mudlya1500 drumlya1522 troublish?1527 puddled1559 puddly1559 suddy1587 muddy1590 droumy1605 muddled1624 turbid1626 turbidous1628 puddlish1633 muddied1642 scuddy1797 roily1823 blundered1855 jumbly1864 mudded1898 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy fennyc897 bymodereda1307 slutchedc1400 muddyc1450 miry?c1475 slabby1542 mired1558 mudded1598 muddied1642 mucksy1665 shabby1705 sludgy1782 slushy1791 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C6v With muddied arms of trees the earth it [sc. the torrent] strows. 1656 E. Calamy et al. in E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue Ep. to Rdr. sig. A5 The muddied fountain casteth forth foul streams. a1797 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. (1798) IV. 48 I..do not expect muddied water to become clear before it has had time to stand. 1865 W. J. Linton Claribel & Other Poems 72 Year after year..The muddied Wye still flows. 1902 R. Kipling Islanders 28 Then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. 1935 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 65 248 The typical houses of the Valochase, Valovale and Valunda are rectangular, with muddied walls and thatched roofs. 1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. iv. 160 No amount of writing about flannelled fools at the wicket and muddied oafs in the goal by Rudyard Kipling could save the British Empire from ultimate collapse. 1998 M. Schneider Panic Bird 32 The small self..deepens Like a muddied puddle that suddenly holds Blue sky. 2. Confused, muddled; hard to perceive or understand; garbled; blurred. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > not discriminated undistinct1534 promiscuous1570 muddy?1571 confounded1572 confuse1577 undistinguished1598 indistinct1604 indistinguished1608 confused1611 muddied1647 indiscriminate1649 indiscriminated1669 undiscriminated1768 unselect1826 unspecialized1874 1647 H. More Cupid's Confl. xvii How would'st thou then my muddied mind deceive With fading shows. 1746 A. Hill Art of Acting 8 Not always, shall Ambition's muddied Brain Work to persuade. 1885 Cent. Mag. Nov. 89/1 I know nothing more indicative of the muddied sentiment of the time. 1921 Jrnl. Philos. 18 611 When Dr. Edman..sets out to justify reason and the life of reason, he is driven to gloss over its essential character..and to treat it as some vague precipitate of muddied and perturbed reflexes. 1985 N. Bagnall Defence of Clichés ii. 32 His message is muddied and darkened with a great many Hartleianisms. 1994 Prairie Fire Summer 189 He developed a system to reproduce engravings using photographic principles, and in 1827 took a picture entitled View from his Window at Le Gras, a muddied heliograph. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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