| 单词 | to wash one's brain, head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wash one's brain, head c. To moisten (the throat) with wine. †Hence to wash one's brain, head, etc., as jocular expressions for wine-drinking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > slake thirst > moisten with liquor or wine wash1390 moist1530 liquefy1826 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink wine to wash one's brain, head1589 port1825 wine1829 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 176 For Bachus was a glotoun eke, Him for the throte thei beseke, That he it wolde waisshen ofte With swote drinkes and with softe. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hijv My teth be al to furrid with flakes of skurfe (sticking vpon them syns I washed them with any merye go downe). 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Diiii He that washeth his braines with diuers kinds of wines, is the next doore to a drunken man. 1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde (1592) F 3 Washing their heades well with wine. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piii I'le wash my temples with some on't presently, and drinke some halfe a score draughts. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 94. a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fff2v/1 Beleeve me fellow here will be lusty drinking. Many a washt pate in wine I warrant thee. < as lemmas |
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