mildewed, ppl. a.
(ˈmɪldjuːd)
[f. mildew v. + -ed1.]
Tainted with mildew.
| 1552 Huloet, Mylle dewed, rubiginosus. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 64 Like a Mildew'd eare. a 1721 Pope Lett., to Dk. Buckhm. Wks. 1737 VI. 26 Two or three mill-dew'd pictures of mouldy ancestors. 1813 Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 265 Great care should be taken that no mildewed straw is carried in the manure used for corn. 1897 Hare Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxx. 472 The mildewed rooms have some scanty remnants of their old furniture. |
| fig. 1605 Marston Dutch Courtesan iii. i. 128 Tisse. Fayth Ioyce is a foolish bitter creature. Crisp. A pretty mildewed wench she is. Tisse. And faire. 1626 E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 24 His hypocritical Entreaties and mildewed Promises. 1923 in J. Manchon Le Slang. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 56 Worse than death The palsied soul, the mildewed brain. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. of Schoolch. ix. 161 Juvenile repugnance continues to be expressed by the old standbys:..mardy, mildewed, mingy, misery-making, [etc.]. |