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单词 water-monger
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water-monger
water-monger n. chiefly depreciative (a) a person who diagnoses illness on the basis of the visual inspection of urine; = water-caster n. 1 (obsolete); (b) a person who sells water; (in later use also) a person or organization which controls a supply of water.
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water-caster1603
water-monger1623
piss-prophet1625
urine-monger1625
urine-prophet1654
waterologer1654
urine -caster1763
urine-doctor1815
urinoscopist1836
water doctor1848
urine-inspector1863
uroscopist1889
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of water
water-sellereOE
waterleader?a1221
water lagger?1518
water-seller1697
water-monger1845
1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines i. ii. 9 Empirickes, water-mongers, and peticoat-physitians.
1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 255 Whatsoe'er the Water-Mongers think The Vertues are of this their Mine'ral Drink,..The Ease they feel, and all the Health they share, Is only due..To Temperance, Exercise, and Country Air.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 72 While in particular stations water-mongers in wholesale have a shed.
1852 Hampshire Advertiser 15 May 3/4 We find our water-mongers sneaking back to the edge of the ‘polluted’ Itchen—to bore or dig wells for water.
1972 Washington Post 23 Apr. a35/4 To protect the proletariat of Hong Kong from exploitation by British ‘capitalist-imperialist water-mongers’.
1995 St Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 30 Mar. 1 b We're being portrayed as the greedy water mongers... It's not greed. We want to help these people.
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