单词 | pond scum |
释义 | pond scumn. 1. North American. The free-floating green scum often found in small ponds and other stagnant or slow-moving fresh waters, consisting of various species of lower green and blue-green algae, esp. filamentous species of the genus Spirogyra. As a count noun: a species of such algae. Cf. blanket weed n. at blanket n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > floating on surface of water frogspawn1741 pond scum1864 frog-spit1892 1864 M. A. Root Camera & Pencil xxviii. 320 (heading) Ocean mud and pond scum, organic life, viz., desmidiæ and diatomacæ. 1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 67 The familiar pond scums which occur everywhere in ponds and ditches as green stringy growths floating or attached to sticks and stones. 1939 D. C. Peattie Flowering Earth iv. 41 The first plant I ever saw through a microscope was a green pond scum, Oscillatoria, oscillating slowly across my field of vision. 2001 G. K. Reid Pond Life 30 Filaments of algae that form the familiar pond scums usually harbor many microscopic animals. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). derogatory. A worthless or contemptible person or group of people. Cf. pond life n. (b) at pond n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1984 Washington Post 19 Mar. c11/2 The man I loved is no more than pond scum to me now. 1991 J. Churchill Farewall to Yarns iii. 22 He's pond scum. 2004 Observer (Nexis) 4 July 12 [A] nice Portugese restaurant in Hadlow, Kent, attacked by some Cross of St George-waving pond scum on the night England were knocked out by Portugal. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864 |
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