| 单词 |
muddied |
| 释义 |
muddied, ppl. a.|ˈmʌdɪd|
[f. muddy v. + -ed1.]
Covered with mud; made muddy. Of water, turbid. Also fig., esp. in phr. muddied oafs in allusion to quot. 1902.
1642H. More Song of Soul i. ii. lx, With muddied arms of trees the earth it strows. 1647― Cupid's Conflict xvii, How would'st thou then my muddied mind deceive With fading shows. 1656E. Calamy in Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue A v, The muddied fountain casteth forth foul streams. a1797M. Wollstonecraft Posth. Wks. (1798) IV. 48, I..do not expect muddied water to become clear before it has had time to stand. 1865W. J. Linton Claribel & other P. 72 Year after year..The muddied Wye still flows. 1902Kipling Islanders 28 Then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. 1912New Age 29 Feb. 416/2 The ‘flannelled fools’ and ‘muddied oafs’, who come down from Oxford and Cambridge. 1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. iv. 160 No amount of writing about flannelled fools at the wicket and muddied oafs in the goal by Rudyard Kipling could save the British Empire from ultimate collapse. |
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单词 muddify 释义 muddify, v.|mdfa|[f. muddy a. + -fy.]trans. To make muddy, to muddle.178......