单词 | splashed |
释义 | splashedadj.1 1. Marked with splashes or irregular patches of colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > splashed with colour dashed1646 splatchy1699 splashed1765 splattered1809 1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 56 In decline of life they as gradually decrease, till they become sometimes a mottled, splashed, or whole colour. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 124 Only tipped with black, or with splashed and smudgy feathers. 1858 W. H. Skyring Builders' Prices 95 Imitation granite, or splashed work. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 June 10/1 A globular vase of splashed crimson and purple crackle. 2. Wet, soiled, or stained with splashes of water, mud, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] splattered1809 splashed1837 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > splashed or spattered with wet substance besmotteredc1405 bysparkit1513 bespattered1667 spattered1785 slopped1806 splashed1837 sloppy1839 sploshy1881 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 71 O ye hapless dulled-bright Seigneurs, and hydrophobic splashed Nankeens. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 126 As the multitude rocked to and fro, a splashed rider spurred through the streets. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 167 Two or three splashed and booted men stood round about, staring at me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018). splashedadj.2 Pleached; secured or strengthened by pleaching. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [adjective] > trained plashed1602 trained1683 espaliered1856 splashed1886 1886 Field 23 Jan. 96/1 A high splashed fence on a bank, reminding one more of Dorsetshire than Wilts, emptied no less than four saddles. 1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 459 No cattle can storm a moorland splashed bank. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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