moorish

See also: Moorish and moreish

English

Etymology

From moor +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/

Adjective

moorish (comparative more moorish, superlative most moorish)

(now rare) Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene ii:
  Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre
  To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens,
  And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
  , I.iii.3:
  [G]low-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […] with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […] .
Resembling or characteristic of a moor; abounding in moorland. [from 16th c.]
- 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 880:
  He recommended to me to plant a considerable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the expence and profit: for he delighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers.
- 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land
  The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.

Synonyms

moory, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

单词	moorish
释义	moorish See also: Moorish and moreish English Etymology From moor +‎ -ish. Pronunciation (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹɪʃ/ Adjective moorish (comparative more moorish, superlative most moorish) (now rare) Of ground, soil etc: boggy, marshy. [from 15th c.] c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene ii: Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens, And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970: , I.iii.3: [G]low-worms, fire-drakes, meteors, ignis fatuus […] with many such that appear in moorish grounds, about churchyards, moist valleys, or where battles have been fought […] . Resembling or characteristic of a moor; abounding in moorland. [from 16th c.] 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 880: He recommended to me to plant a considerable part of a large moorish farm which I had purchased, and he made several calculations of the expence and profit: for he delighted in exercising his mind on the science of numbers. 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts. Synonyms moory, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy
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