单词 | to water one's clay |
释义 | > as lemmasto water one's clay 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 1751 in J. Winstanley et al. Poems II. 228 Here lies honest Ned, Who drank himself dead, But when to the Bottom I dip, Tho' he water'd his Clay, Both by Night and by Day, I shall find him as dry as a Chip. 1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Feb. 80/1 Old women should water their clay a little now and then. < as lemmas |
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