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单词 puddle water
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puddle water
a. attributive or as adj. Found in, associated with, or likened to a puddle; (hence) dirty, muddy, thick, polluted. Also figurative. In later use chiefly in puddle water.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty water
puddle watera1425
dishwater1484
swilling1545
puddle1555
dish-wash1592
coal water1670
bilge-water1706
bulge-water1736
dish-washings1771
kob water1930
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 335 Þei grutchiden aȝens þis water, and drunken podel water of þe canel.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 978 To see Antonius..so easily to drinke puddle water, and to eate wild frutes and rootes.
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 23 T'is puddle sacrilege so to disgrase The grace of God, through errors rude misprisall.
1619 R. Harris Drunkards Cup 12 Hee knowes how of puddle ale, to make a cup of English wine.
1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 374 As if one, to put away one spot in his face, should wash himself in puddle mire.
1704 M. Henry Communicant's Compan. iii. 25 Let us not forsake these Living-Streams for Puddle-Water.
1785 T. Horde Nature will Prevail i. i. 15 The most sparkling, vivifying wines are but puddle water strain'd by the pressure of a vine-vat.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iii. 48 I would fain let their puddle-blood flow an hour or two longer.
1902 W. B. Yeats in Monthly Rev. July 8 He had puddle water in his shoes.
1987 A. Dillard Amer. Childhood ii. 148 I spread a scummy drop of Frick Park puddle water on a slide.
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