ditchwater

/dich-waw-ter, -wot-er/US // ˈdɪtʃˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər //UK // (ˈdɪtʃˌwɔːtə) //

沟渠水,沟水,渠水,沟渠之水

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.

Mrs. Bodfish and Mrs. Ditchwater are talking in confidential undertones on a settee.
We have been walking for ten days now without an adventure—except Barnes's discovery that ditchwater smells longest.
Life would be as ditchwater were it not stirred to its depths by K.'s secret cable.
He looks as though hes so nice hell be as dull as ditchwater.
Ugh—what the devil would you do in those damnable sickly gutters—floundering about in the brackish ditchwater?