单词 | bedraggle |
释义 | bedragglev. 1. transitive. To wet (dress, skirts, or the like) so that they drag, or hang limp and clinging with moisture. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > fabric bedraggle1871 1871 Daily News 24 Aug. The rain has fallen..bedraggling the flags and banners. 2. transitive. ‘To soil clothes by suffering them, in walking, to reach the dirt.’ Johnson. (Rare in the active till modern times.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > dirty by trailing in mud bedaga1300 belaga1300 bedrabblec1440 drabblec1440 dag1484 draggle1513 daggle1530 bedaggle1580 bedabble1600 bedraggle1727 1727 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue Richmond-Lodge in Wks. (1735) II. 375 Poor Patty Blount no more be seen Bedraggled in my Walks so green. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 9 The very sky..Bedraggled with the desolating salt. Derivatives bedraggled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy > dirty by trailing in mud drabbledc1440 dagged1484 draggled1513 daggling1562 daggle-tailed1573 daggled1607 draggle-tailed1654 draggle-tail1707 daggled-tail1711 bedraggled1824 bedabbled1862 traipsed1884 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 36 Such pale, careworn faces, such bedraggled dresses. 1852 N. Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales 105 All in a terribly bedraggled condition. bedragglement n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtiness by trailing in mud bedragglement1882 bedrabbling1884 1882 Standard 7 June 3/1 Elaborate costumes..much the worse, not for wear, but for..bedragglement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < v.1727 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。