wet blanketn.

Brit.

/ˌwɛt ˈblaŋkɪt/, U.S.

/ˌwɛt ˈblæŋkət/

1. A blanket that has been drenched in water; esp. one used for quenching a conflagration. Chiefly in allusive use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > blanket

wet blanket1662

1662 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour (new ed.) 95 Of quenching an house on fire. The Instruments..are..forks, wet-blankets, ladders,..pails, &c.

1662 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour (new ed.) 97 Cover the out-side with wet blankets, hair-cloths, &c. that neither the flame get out nor air get in.

1702 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 264 At Whitny in Oxfordshire, those who work at the Blanket-Mills, carry wet Blankets in their Arms next their Breast, Winter and Summer, and never catch Cold.

1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover i. i. 4 His humours damp all mirth and merriment, as a wet blanket does a fire.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxxvi. 21 Lambro's reception at his people's banquet Was such as fire accords to a wet blanket.

1838 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. xxi. 54 It seems like a wet blanket cast upon all the fire we have been fanning.

2. figurative.

a. Something that acts as a damper to activity, enthusiasm, or cheerfulness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances

cloudc1430

palla1450

melancholya1475

downdraughta1681

Job's comforter1738

damper1748

killjoy1776

wet blanket1810

down-drag1814

chill1821

dismals1829

shadow1855

down1856

a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857

wet blanket1857

depressor1868

dampener1887

sorry-go-round1898

wet smack1927

bringdown1935

droopy drawers1939

big chill1943

party pooper1947

misery1951

party poop1951

grinch1966

downer1969

1810 G. Jackson Diary 21 June in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) I. 143 It would have been a cruel stroke of fate..if..a wet blanket [had] been thrown over them [sc. gaieties].

1829 Sporting Mag. 23 426 All was in readiness..when a wet blanket was thrown upon all their hopes.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ii. 23 It was an unlucky toast or sentiment... It was a wet blanket to the evening.

1894 A. Jessopp Random Roaming vi. 195 That chilling maxim—the wet-blanket of enthusiasm.

b. A person who has a depressing or dispiriting effect on those around him.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances

cloudc1430

palla1450

melancholya1475

downdraughta1681

Job's comforter1738

damper1748

killjoy1776

wet blanket1810

down-drag1814

chill1821

dismals1829

shadow1855

down1856

a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857

wet blanket1857

depressor1868

dampener1887

sorry-go-round1898

wet smack1927

bringdown1935

droopy drawers1939

big chill1943

party pooper1947

misery1951

party poop1951

grinch1966

downer1969

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 185 Such people may be termed the wet blankets of society.

1875 ‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton II. 18 As he is of course the wet blanket of the party, they are none of them sorry when he leaves again.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. iv. 21 She would spoil the whole thing; she is such a wet blanket.

1897 M. Oliphant W. Blackwood I. iii. 128 Sometimes he called her a wet blanket, when she thus damped his ardour.

Derivatives

wet-ˈblanket v. (transitive) to throw a damper on, discourage, depress.

1866 J. D. Coleridge Let. in Life Ld. Coleridge (1904) II. 140 I think any one would have felt wet-blanketed by the utter commonplaceness of the whole affair.

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xxi. 309 I knew Meg would wet-blanket such a proposal, but I thought you had more spirit.

1893 W. A. Shee My Contemporaries iii. 47 Such people..should..not be allowed to wet-blanket the world with their stolid stare.

1901 Scotsman 12 Mar. 9/5 Power traction..had been effectively wetblanketed for fully two generations.

wet-ˈblanketing adj.

1843 J. F. Murray World of London I. 131 The impossible-mongering, cold-water-throwing, wet-blanketting-fellows, howled in this way about the Thames tunnel.

wet-ˈblanketiveness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality

wet-blanketiveness1834

depressingness1923

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > pessimism

pessimism1815

negativity1826

wet-blanketiveness1834

unsanguineness1841

nay-saying1893

gloom and doom1947

negaholism1989

1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 412 Throwing off the ‘wet-blanketiveness’ which usually extinguishes your social qualities.

wet-ˈblanketty adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

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adusk1856

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Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

1848 Zoologist 6 2048 Adapting my phraseology to the author's, I would say such parts of the book are very ‘wet-blanketty’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	wet blanket
释义	wet blanketn. Brit. /ˌwɛt ˈblaŋkɪt/, U.S. /ˌwɛt ˈblæŋkət/ 1. A blanket that has been drenched in water; esp. one used for quenching a conflagration. Chiefly in allusive use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > blanket wet blanket1662 1662 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour (new ed.) 95 Of quenching an house on fire. The Instruments..are..forks, wet-blankets, ladders,..pails, &c. 1662 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour (new ed.) 97 Cover the out-side with wet blankets, hair-cloths, &c. that neither the flame get out nor air get in. 1702 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 264 At Whitny in Oxfordshire, those who work at the Blanket-Mills, carry wet Blankets in their Arms next their Breast, Winter and Summer, and never catch Cold. 1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover i. i. 4 His humours damp all mirth and merriment, as a wet blanket does a fire. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxxvi. 21 Lambro's reception at his people's banquet Was such as fire accords to a wet blanket. 1838 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) II. xxi. 54 It seems like a wet blanket cast upon all the fire we have been fanning. 2. figurative. a. Something that acts as a damper to activity, enthusiasm, or cheerfulness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances cloudc1430 palla1450 melancholya1475 downdraughta1681 Job's comforter1738 damper1748 killjoy1776 wet blanket1810 down-drag1814 chill1821 dismals1829 shadow1855 down1856 a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857 wet blanket1857 depressor1868 dampener1887 sorry-go-round1898 wet smack1927 bringdown1935 droopy drawers1939 big chill1943 party pooper1947 misery1951 party poop1951 grinch1966 downer1969 1810 G. Jackson Diary 21 June in Lady Jackson Bath Archives (1873) I. 143 It would have been a cruel stroke of fate..if..a wet blanket [had] been thrown over them [sc. gaieties]. 1829 Sporting Mag. 23 426 All was in readiness..when a wet blanket was thrown upon all their hopes. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ii. 23 It was an unlucky toast or sentiment... It was a wet blanket to the evening. 1894 A. Jessopp Random Roaming vi. 195 That chilling maxim—the wet-blanket of enthusiasm. b. A person who has a depressing or dispiriting effect on those around him. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality > depressing thing, person, or circumstances cloudc1430 palla1450 melancholya1475 downdraughta1681 Job's comforter1738 damper1748 killjoy1776 wet blanket1810 down-drag1814 chill1821 dismals1829 shadow1855 down1856 a skeleton at the feast (or banquet)1857 wet blanket1857 depressor1868 dampener1887 sorry-go-round1898 wet smack1927 bringdown1935 droopy drawers1939 big chill1943 party pooper1947 misery1951 party poop1951 grinch1966 downer1969 1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 185 Such people may be termed the wet blankets of society. 1875 ‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton II. 18 As he is of course the wet blanket of the party, they are none of them sorry when he leaves again. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. ii. iv. 21 She would spoil the whole thing; she is such a wet blanket. 1897 M. Oliphant W. Blackwood I. iii. 128 Sometimes he called her a wet blanket, when she thus damped his ardour. Derivatives wet-ˈblanket v. (transitive) to throw a damper on, discourage, depress. Π 1866 J. D. Coleridge Let. in Life Ld. Coleridge (1904) II. 140 I think any one would have felt wet-blanketed by the utter commonplaceness of the whole affair. 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xxi. 309 I knew Meg would wet-blanket such a proposal, but I thought you had more spirit. 1893 W. A. Shee My Contemporaries iii. 47 Such people..should..not be allowed to wet-blanket the world with their stolid stare. 1901 Scotsman 12 Mar. 9/5 Power traction..had been effectively wetblanketed for fully two generations. wet-ˈblanketing adj. Π 1843 J. F. Murray World of London I. 131 The impossible-mongering, cold-water-throwing, wet-blanketting-fellows, howled in this way about the Thames tunnel. wet-ˈblanketiveness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > depressing quality wet-blanketiveness1834 depressingness1923 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > pessimism pessimism1815 negativity1826 wet-blanketiveness1834 unsanguineness1841 nay-saying1893 gloom and doom1947 negaholism1989 1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 412 Throwing off the ‘wet-blanketiveness’ which usually extinguishes your social qualities. wet-ˈblanketty adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 1848 Zoologist 6 2048 Adapting my phraseology to the author's, I would say such parts of the book are very ‘wet-blanketty’. 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