单词 | wallowish |
释义 | wallowishadj. Now dialect. a. Insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. CompoundsΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1548 |
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