| 单词 | water-monger |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > diagnostician > by urine 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. < as lemmas |
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