英语词汇“bewitched water”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. colloquial. depreciative. water bewitched (also bewitched water): drink (originally alcoholic drink, later more usually tea or coffee) which is extremely weak or has been excessively diluted. Also figurative. Formerly similarly also †water scared (also turned) out of its wits. Now somewhat archaic.

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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > weak tea

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1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxviii. f. 112^v Quasse, which is nothing els (as wee say) but water turned out of his wittes, with a litle branne meashed with it.

1656 R. Short Περι Ψυχροποσιας ix. 39 We may drink small-beer, such as is water scar'd out of its wits, small-ale, small-wine.

1664 H. Bold Poems 64 Twas this [sc. sack] (in a word) Made, the Cobler, a Lord Till, relaps'd, to bewitched water, In an ill time (then) Recobler'd agen, Was, never, his own man, after.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 104/2 Wort of the last drawing, it is thin and makes small drink..to give it its true term, it is no other than Water bewitched.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 24 Your Ladyship is very sparing of your Tea: I protest, the last I took, was no more than Water bewitch'd.

1778 St. James's Chron. 29 Jan. Besides the Water bewitched, the musty Cask, we are generally obliged to drink the worst of all Vinegar, to the Mortification of our Palate, and the Racking of our Bowels.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 25 Another Book of Noble's,..is of much more stupid character; nearly meaningless indeed; mere water bewitched.

1853 Ainsworth's Mag. 24 86 They would..devour beefsteaks and drink bewitched water, as they irreverently called the Souchong.

1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 105 A cup of coffee, not ‘water bewitched’.

1923 J. Kenlon Fourteen Years a Sailor 185 A cup of coffee on the order of what sailors call ‘water bewitched’, because it resembled coffee as much as any other beverage.

1994 H. Dunmore Burning Bright xvii. 178 The tea won't be strong enough and Enid'll call it water bewitched.

单词	bewitched water
释义	> as lemmas bewitched water a. colloquial. depreciative. water bewitched (also bewitched water): drink (originally alcoholic drink, later more usually tea or coffee) which is extremely weak or has been excessively diluted. Also figurative. Formerly similarly also †water scared (also turned) out of its wits. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > weak tea water bewitched1591 cat-lap1785 blash1835 skilly1927 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxviii. f. 112^v Quasse, which is nothing els (as wee say) but water turned out of his wittes, with a litle branne meashed with it. 1656 R. Short Περι Ψυχροποσιας ix. 39 We may drink small-beer, such as is water scar'd out of its wits, small-ale, small-wine. 1664 H. Bold Poems 64 Twas this [sc. sack] (in a word) Made, the Cobler, a Lord Till, relaps'd, to bewitched water, In an ill time (then) Recobler'd agen, Was, never, his own man, after. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 104/2 Wort of the last drawing, it is thin and makes small drink..to give it its true term, it is no other than Water bewitched. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 24 Your Ladyship is very sparing of your Tea: I protest, the last I took, was no more than Water bewitch'd. 1778 St. James's Chron. 29 Jan. Besides the Water bewitched, the musty Cask, we are generally obliged to drink the worst of all Vinegar, to the Mortification of our Palate, and the Racking of our Bowels. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 25 Another Book of Noble's,..is of much more stupid character; nearly meaningless indeed; mere water bewitched. 1853 Ainsworth's Mag. 24 86 They would..devour beefsteaks and drink bewitched water, as they irreverently called the Souchong. 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 105 A cup of coffee, not ‘water bewitched’. 1923 J. Kenlon Fourteen Years a Sailor 185 A cup of coffee on the order of what sailors call ‘water bewitched’, because it resembled coffee as much as any other beverage. 1994 H. Dunmore Burning Bright xvii. 178 The tea won't be strong enough and Enid'll call it water bewitched. extracted from watern. < as lemmas
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