sluicyadj.

/ˈsluːsi/

Forms: Also 1600s slucy.

Etymology: < sluice n. + -y suffix¹.

Chiefly poetic.

1. Of rain, etc.: Falling or pouring copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice; streaming, drenching.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > heavy

steepc1330

pissingc1475

thightc1480

pouring1577

pashing1581

sad1590

steep-down1601

solid1621

even down1622

sluicy1697

pelting1710

buck1732

steeping1774

peppering1827

sluicing1847

torrential1849

peltering1858

plumping1879

teeming1880

lashing1885

monsoonish1886

sheeting1940

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 122 While Jove descends in sluicy Sheets of Rain.

1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things II. v. 443 Rapid rivers, swelled by sluicy showers.

1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 148 The deluges of rain that in compact, sluicy sheets now descended.

2. Resembling a sluice; acting like a sluice. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > [adjective] > emitting

spouting1566

welling1573

scaturient1684

sluicya1703

gushing1717

a1703 J. Pomfret Last Epiph. iii Such were the boding Times, Ere Ruin blasted from the sluicy Sky.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 43 That hospitable Seat of Life..open'd all its sluicy Gates to take the Stranger in.

3. Of sand: Wet, soaking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [adjective] > sand > wet

sluicy1818

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 47 'Tis the grot..where her tender hands She dabbles, on the cool and sluicy sands.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sluicy
释义	sluicyadj. /ˈsluːsi/ Forms: Also 1600s slucy. Etymology: < sluice n. + -y suffix¹. Chiefly poetic. 1. Of rain, etc.: Falling or pouring copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice; streaming, drenching. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > heavy steepc1330 pissingc1475 thightc1480 pouring1577 pashing1581 sad1590 steep-down1601 solid1621 even down1622 sluicy1697 pelting1710 buck1732 steeping1774 peppering1827 sluicing1847 torrential1849 peltering1858 plumping1879 teeming1880 lashing1885 monsoonish1886 sheeting1940 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain. View more context for this quotation 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 122 While Jove descends in sluicy Sheets of Rain. 1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things II. v. 443 Rapid rivers, swelled by sluicy showers. 1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 148 The deluges of rain that in compact, sluicy sheets now descended. 2. Resembling a sluice; acting like a sluice. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > [adjective] > emitting spouting1566 welling1573 scaturient1684 sluicya1703 gushing1717 a1703 J. Pomfret Last Epiph. iii Such were the boding Times, Ere Ruin blasted from the sluicy Sky. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 43 That hospitable Seat of Life..open'd all its sluicy Gates to take the Stranger in. 3. Of sand: Wet, soaking. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [adjective] > sand > wet sluicy1818 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 47 'Tis the grot..where her tender hands She dabbles, on the cool and sluicy sands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1697
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