| 单词 | to make a person's mouth water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a person's mouth water b. to make a person's mouth water: to make a person salivate in anticipation of food; (figurative) to fill a person with pleasurable anticipation or desire. Cf. water v. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > have (good) appetite [verb (intransitive)] > excite appetite to make a person's mouth watera1586 to set a person's teeth on water1591 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [verb (transitive)] > secrete saliva to make a person's mouth watera1586 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [verb (intransitive)] > secrete saliva > flow in mouth to make a person's mouth watera1586 the teeth water1600 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. f. 287v For the bosse [of the bit]..a cluster of grapes, by the workeman made so liuely, that it seemed, as the horse champed on his bitte, he chopped for them, and that it did make his mouth water, to see the grapes so neere him. 1676 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia (new ed.) 76 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) The Mountains of Gold also..made his [sc. Cortez's] mouth water. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Amorous Quarrel v. ix, in Molière Wks. I. 335 A Gallant should be well made enough to make one's Mouth water. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 362 The sight of a company sitting down before a plentiful meal will presently make the mouth water to be doing the like. 1813 J. Austen Let. 25 Sept. (1995) 229 Rostock Market makes one's mouth water, our cheapest Butcher's meat is double the price of theirs. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. xi. 283 All the delicacies of the season in short, that make one's mouth water to write. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 274 He has drawn a picture..such as makes a brother naturalist's mouth water. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxviii. 348 Macalister..told him what fortunes he could have made if he had bought certain stock at certain times. It made Philip's mouth water... It would have suited him very well to make a little money. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest 226 I led her round the cages again and pointed out the specimens, some of which were so unusual that they made my mouth water just to look at them. 1990 Edgebrook (Chicago) Times Rev. 5 Dec. a25/2 If the idea of saving money on eating out makes your mouth water, our early dinner's for you. < as lemmas |
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