(† -shoed), a. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: α. 4–5 wete-schood, -shoed, -shode; 5 wet-schoede, schode, -shood (whetshood), 6 -shoode, 7 -shooed; 5 watschoed, -schood. β. 4–6 wete-shodde, 5 wate-shodd; 5– wet-shod (5 -schod, 7 -shodde; 5 wadsshod, 7 ? wet-shot). (Also in many dialect forms: see Eng. Dial. Dict.) [f. wete, wate WET a. + SHOED, SHOD, ppl. adjs.] Having the feet wet.
α. 1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XVIII. 1. Wolleward and wete-shoed went I forth after. Ibid. (1393), C. XVII. 14. And ȝut is wynter for hem wors, for wet-shood þei gangen.
a. 1400[?]. Arthur, 469. Þere men were wetschoede All of brayn & of blode.
a. 1470. Gregory, Chron., in Hist. Collect. Cit. Lond. (Camden), 207. They fulle ungoodely smote owte the heddys of the pypys and hoggs hedys of wyne, that men wente wete-schode in wyne.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. v. § 2. Moses foretold that he should be wetshooed in oile.
β. 1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIV. 161. And ȝit is wynter for hem worse, for wete-shodde thei gange. Ibid. (1393), C. XXI. 1. Wo-werie and wetschod wente ich forth after.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 172. A preste þat hight Stephan on a tyme was wate-shodd.
a. 1510. Stanbridge, Vulgaria (W. de W.), B vj. I am wete shodde, Pedes humectant.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xxx. (1870), 293. Beware of takyng colde in the legge, or ryding, or goynge wetshod.
1592. Lyly, Gallathea, I. iv. 10. Ile warrant by this time he is wetshod.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, cxcii. Scarse a man but wet-shod went in gore.
1657. T. M., Life Sat. Puppy Nim, 10. They which followed the Coffin to buriall, went wetshod in those affectionate Teares.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgr., II. (1900), 235. So he went over [the river] at last, not much above wet-shod.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 320. Your Billy has not yet been accustom’d to be wet-shod.
1775. Chandler, Trav. Asia Minor, 41. I passed the stream several times without being wet-shod.
1825–. in many dialect glossaries (cf. Eng. Dial. Dict.).
b. fig. (or in figurative context).
1575. Fenton, Golden Epist. (1582), 249. You seeme … to wade continually wetshoode in the laake of this miserable worlde.
1589. ? Lyly, Pappe w. Hatchet, B j b. He will make their wits wetshod, if the ale haue his swift current.
1622. Massinger & Dekker, Virg. Martyr, III. iii. All my hopes are seam-rent, and go wet-shod.
a. 1652. Brome, City Wit, IV. i. Virtue goes often wetshod, and is forc’d to be cobled up with base means, to hold out water and cold necessity.
16[?]. Times, 1, in Cleveland’s Wks. (1687), 239. To speak in wet-shod Eyes, and drowned Looks.
