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单词 wetly
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wetlyadv.

Brit. /ˈwɛtli/, U.S. /ˈwɛtli/
Forms: Also 1500s weatly.
Etymology: < wet adj.
In a wet manner or state.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adverb]
wetly1562
dripping wet1840
α.
1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigr. in Wks. sig. Dd iiijv Walke thou weatly, walke thou dryly: In thy walke, walke not hyly.
β. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner i. i. 254 Iden. How fares he? Gab. Wetly and wearily, but out of peril.1866 R. Buchanan Poems (1884) 163 For the world rolls on with air and ocean Wetly and windily round and round.1890 R. Broughton Alas! ii. vii February has come wetly in, with rain wildly weeping against the casements.1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 3 The immense beast, black, shining wetly.1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 1486/3 Raffles's relations with his accomplice, Boswell, and room-mate, the wet and unendearing Bunny. Bunny..went to prison..to shield A. J., who rather let him down; but Bunny wetly forgave him.1978 Guardian Weekly 12 Mar. 21/3 A peaceable fellow-officer, played slightly wetly by the American Beau Bridges.
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