welter
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
Đồng nghĩa: bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, anthology, gallery, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, hodgepodge, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpotch, hotchpot, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, motley, odds and ends, oddments, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter, Whitman's sampler
- 2.
A tossing or rolling about.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To roll around; to wallow.
- 2.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To revel, luxuriate.
1537, Hugh Latimer, Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in The Sermons of Hugh Latimer, London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38, When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
These wisards weltre in welths waues, pampred in pleasures deepe, They han fatte kernes, and leany knaues,
- 3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
- 4.
To wither; to wilt.
1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40, But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Heavyweight. (of horsemen)
a welter race
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From Middle English welteren, equivalent to welt + -er. Cognates include weltern, velta (vælte), wälzen, 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽. Akin to wallow and volvō.