| 单词 | to moisten or wet one's clay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto moisten or wet one's clay b. to moisten or wet one's clay: to drink. (humorous.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] drinkc1000 to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386 bumc1390 to wet (erron. whet) one's whistlec1405 tipple1648 to suck one's face1699 to moisten or wet one's clay1708 to water one's clay1751 1708 Brit. Apollo 12–17 Nov. We were moistening our Clay. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶9 To moisten their Clay, and grow immortal by drinking. 1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 23 How should he return to Dust Who daily wets his Clay. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlviii. 64 Mr. Swiveller..chanced at the moment..to be moistening his clay, as the phrase goes, rather copiously. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 119 When his poor old clay was wet with gin. < as lemmas |
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