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单词 wallowish
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wallowishadj.

/ˈwɒləʊɪʃ/
Forms: Also 1500s walowyshe, walow(e)ish, 1600s wallouish. See also walsh adj.
Etymology: < wallow adj. + -ish suffix1.
Now dialect.
a. Insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]
wallowc897
smatchless?c1225
unsavoury?c1225
fresha1398
savourlessa1398
wearish1398
wershed1398
fond?c1430
unsavoured1435
palled1440
mildc1450
walsh1513
wallowish1548
dead1552
waterish1566
cold1585
flatten1594
seasonless1595
wersha1599
blown1600
flash1601
fatuous1608
tasteless1611
flat1617
insipid1620
ingustable1623
flashy1625
flatted1626
saltless1633
gustless1636
remiss1655
rheumatical1655
untasteable1656
vapid1656
exolete1657
distasted1662
vappous1673
insulse1676
toothless1679
mawkisha1697
intastable1701
waugh1703
impoignant1733
flavourless1736
instimulating1740
deadish1742
mawky1755
brineless1791
wishy-washy1791
keestless1802
shilpit1814
wish-washy1814
sapidless1821
silent1826
slushy1839
bland1878
spendsavour1879
wish-wash1896
dolled1917
spiceless1980
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > disgusting
queasyc1450
walsh1513
filthy1533
wallowish1548
foul1560
maumish1580
nasty1601
distastable1607
distasteful1611
disgustfula1625
nauseous1649
fulsome1694
mawkisha1697
disgusting1754
pukey1852
brackish1871
wambly1899
bogging1973
feechie1975
angin1994
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. to King a vj Honey is waloweishe and ouercasteth the stomake.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvi. sig. Z4v Like the sicke man, to whom the Phisition sweares, the ill-tasting wallowish medicine he profers, is of a good taste.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Disapito, vnsauorie, tasting of nothing, wallowish.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. i. 176 Salt giveth a good rellish to any meat that is over sweet, and tempereth those that have a lushious and wallowish tast.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 80 This fruit [sc. the water-melon] is..waterish, and wallowish.
1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. ii. ix. 247 The wallowish sweetness of Muste.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 78 In the South we say wallouish, meaning somewhat nauseous.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) Oh, mother, how wallow this here bread is!—Why, bairn, I'd gotten no salt to put in it; it maks it a bit wallowish.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James iv. f. xxxviiv Therfore who so euer backbiteth his neighbour, he either condemneth the lawe..or backbiteth it as though it were to muche myngle mangled, and walowyshe, the office wherof the backbytour taketh vpon hym.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlii. 142 He is a foole, his taste is wallowish and distracted.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. x. 610 My maners are mustie, rather wallowish then sharpe.
1609 G. Benson Serm. 7 May 7 May 13 Though those sixe petitions deliuered by our hearts and tongues (by reason of the mixture of our vainty) bee full of water, weake, wallowish.

Compounds

wallowish-sweet adj. Obsolete so sweet as to cloy, sickly.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > overly sweet
wallow-sweetc1440
oversweeta1475
luscious1530
wallowish-sweet1575
overluscious1626
over-sweetened1818
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxviii. 189 Few hounds will eate of a Foxes fleshe, but a Badgerdes is wallowish sweet & rammish.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 328b Theyr milk is walowish sweete.

Derivatives

ˈwallowishly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adverb]
unsavourilyc1440
wallowishly1603
unsavourly1661
insipidly1699
mawkishly1758
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 631 There are some beauties,..pleasing-sweete, and yet wallowishly tastlesse.
ˈwallowishness n.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun]
wearishnessa1398
unsavouriness1422
tastelessness1600
flashinessa1603
wallowishness1603
insipidity1611
insipidnessa1631
deadness1707
flatness1707
mawkishness1727
walshness1808
ditchwateriness1840
savourlessness1841
blandness1846
silence1879
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 349 The distasted impute wallowishnesse vnto Wine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Affadissement, wallowishnesse, vnsauorinesse, tastlesnesse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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