英语词源

• hoity-toity 英文词源 hoity-toity also hoity toity , 1660s, "riotous behavior," from earlier highty tighty "frolicsome, flighty," perhaps an alteration and reduplication of dialectal hoyting "acting the hoyden, romping" (1590s), see hoyden . Sense of "haughty" first recorded late 1800s, probably on similarity of sound. 中文词源 hoity-toity ：装模作样的 来自古词hoit,玩弄，戏弄。引申词义
• hoist 英文词源 hoist hoist: [16] The history of hoist cannot be traced back very far. It is an alteration of a now defunct hoise (probably due to the mistaking of the past form hoised for a present form), which itself was an alteration of an earlier heise . This probably came from, or at least was related to, Dutch hijsen or Low German hissen ‘raise’. Heist ‘robbery, hold-up’ [20], which ori
• hoick 英文词源 hoick "Lift or pull abruptly or with effort", Late 19th century: perhaps a variant of hike. 中文词源 hoick ：猛提，猛拉 可能来自hike拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hoick 词源， hoick 含义。
• hogwash 英文词源 hogwash (n.) mid-15c., "slops fed to pigs," from hog (n.) + wash (n.). Extended to "cheap liquor" (1712) then to "inferior writing" (1773). 中文词源 hogwash ：胡言乱语，胡扯 hog,猪，wash,洗。即猪水，猪食，引申词义胡言乱语，胡扯。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hogwash 词源， hogwash 含义。
• Hogmanay 英文词源 hogmanay hogmanay: [17] Hogmanay is the Scottish term for ‘New Year’s Eve’, and so might reasonably be supposed to be of Gaelic origin, but in fact it is not. It appears to come from hoguinané , the Norman dialect version of Old French aguillanneuf , a greeting given when exchanging New Year’s gifts (and possibly a contraction of accueillis l’an neuf ‘welcome the new year’
• hog 英文词源 hog hog: [OE] Hog generally means ‘pig’, of course, and has done so since the late Old English period, but it is also a technical term used by farmers and stockmen for a ‘young sheep before its first sheering’, a usage which seems to go back at least to the 14th century, so it could well be that originally the term hog denoted not a type of animal, but its age. Its ultimate so
• hoedown 英文词源 hoedown (n.) "noisy dance," 1841, apparently originally the name of a specific dance, perhaps from perceived parallel of dance motions to those of farm chores, hence from hoe (n.). The step of every negro dance that was ever known, was called into requisition and admirably executed. They performed the "double shuffle," the "Virginny break-down," the "Kentucky heeltap," the "pigeon win
• hoe 英文词源 hoe hoe: see hay hoe (n.) mid-14c., from Old French houe (12c.), from Frankish *hauwa , from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cognates: Old High German houwa "hoe, mattock, pick-axe," German Haue ), from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (see hew ). The verb is first recorded early 15c. Related: Hoed ; hoeing . 中文词源 hoe ：锄头 来自PIE*kau,砍，劈，击，词源同hew,hay.用于指锄头。
• Hodgkin 英文词源 Hodgkins disease 1877, named for Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) who first described it. 中文词源 Hodgkin ：’s disease 霍奇金病 来自19世纪首次描述这种病症的英国医生Thomas Hodgkin. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hodgkin 词源， Hodgkin 含义。
• hod 英文词源 hod (n.) 1570s, alteration of Middle English hott "pannier" (c. 1300), from Old French hotte "basket to carry on the back," apparently from Frankish *hotta or some other Germanic source (compare Middle High German hotze "cradle"). Altered by influence of cognate Middle Dutch hodde "basket." 中文词源 hod ：砖斗 来自中古英语hott,篮子。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• hocus-pocus 英文词源 hocus-pocus 1620s, Hocas Pocas , common name of a magician or juggler, a sham-Latin invocation used in tricks, probably based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum "This is my body." The first to make this speculation on its origin apparently was English prelate John Tillotson (1630-1694). I will speak of one man ... that went about in King Jam
• hockey 英文词源 hockey hockey: [19] The first known unequivocal reference to the game of hockey comes in William Holloway’s General Dictionary of Provincialisms 1838, where he calls it hawkey , and describes it as ‘a game played by several boys on each side with sticks, called hawkeybats, and a ball’ (the term came from West Sussex). It is not known for certain where the word originated, but it
• hock 英文词源 hock hock: English has three words hock . The oldest, ‘joint of a quadruped corresponding to the human ankle’ [16], is short for an earlier hockshin , which comes from Old English hōhsinu . This meant literally ‘heel-sinew’, and the hōh came from the same prehistoric Germanic source as produced modern English heel . In its original sense it can also be spelled hough , but fo
• Hobson 英文词源 Hobsons choice (n.) English university slang term, supposedly a reference to Thomas Hobson (c. 1544-1631), Cambridge stable manager who let horses and gave customers a choice of the horse next in line or none at all. Phrase popularized c. 1660 by Milton, who was at Cambridge from 1625-29. Hobson-Jobson 1690s, hossen gossen , said to have been British soldiers' mangled Englishing of th
• hobo 英文词源 hobo (n.) 1889, Western U.S., of unknown origin. Barnhart compares early 19c. English dialectal hawbuck "lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin." Or possibly from ho, boy , a workers' call on late 19c. western U.S. railroads. Facetious formation hobohemia , "community or life of hobos," is from 1923 (see bohemian ). 中文词源 hobo ：零工，散工 词源不详，可能来自口语h
• hobnob 英文词源 hobnob hobnob: [18] In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night , Sir Toby Belch says ‘Hob, nob, is his word: give’t or take’t’; from which it has been deduced that the hob of hobnob represents have and that the nob represents the now obsolete nave ‘not have’ (formed in the Old English period by adding the negative particle ne to have ). In Middle English these would have been habbe
• hobnail 英文词源 hobnail (n.) 1590s, the first element probably identical with hob "rounded peg or pin used as a mark or target in games" (1580s), of unknown origin. See hob . Because they were used to make rough shoes, the word was used figuratively for "rustic person" 17c. and after. Related: Hobnailed . 中文词源 hobnail ：平头钉 hob,插销，词源同hub,nail,钉子。常用于指一种平头
• hobgoblin 英文词源 hobgoblin (n.) 1520s, from hob "elf," from Hobbe , a variant of Rob (compare Hick for Richard , Hodge for Rodger , etc.), short for Robin Goodfellow , elf character in German folklore, + goblin . 中文词源 hobgoblin ：淘气小妖 hob,小妖精，goblin,小妖精。引申词义淘气小妖。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hobgoblin 词源， hobgoblin 含义
• hobbyist 英文词源 hobbyist (n.) 1830, from hobby + -ist . Hobbyism is recorded from 1846. 中文词源 hobbyist ：业余爱好者 来自hobby,业余爱好。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hobbyist 词源， hobbyist 含义。
• hobby horse 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random tongue tongue: [OE] Tongue is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zunge , Dutch tong , Swedish tonga , and Danish tonge . These all evolved from a prehistoric Germanic * tunggōn , whose ultimate ancestor was Indo- European * dnghwā -. This also produced Latin lingua ‘tongue, language’ (source of English langu
• hobble 英文词源 hobble (v.) c. 1300, hoblen "to rock back and forth, toss up and down," probably related to its Dutch cognate hobbelen (which, however, is not recorded before late 15c.). Meaning "to walk lamely" is from c. 1400. Transitive sense of "tie the legs (of an animal)" first recorded 1831, probably an alteration of 16c. hopple , cognate with Flemish hoppelen "to rock, jump," which also is re
• hob 英文词源 hob hob: see hub hob (n.) "side of fireplace," 1670s, alteration of hubbe (1510s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow related to the first element in hobnail . Hob (n.) "clown, prankster," short for hobgoblin (q.v.). Hence, to play (the) hob "make mischief" (by 1834). 中文词源 hob ：炉盘，烤炉搁架 来自古英语habban,持，握，词源同have,heave.用于指壁炉搁架或
• hoax 英文词源 hoax hoax: see hocus pocus hoax 1796 (v.), 1808 (n.), probably an alteration of hocus "conjurer, juggler" (1630s), or directly from hocus-pocus . Related: Hoaxed ; hoaxing . 中文词源 hoax ：骗局，欺骗 词源不确定，可能来自拉丁语jocus,笑话，词源同joke.引申词义嘲笑，骗局，欺骗。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hoax 词源，
• hoary 英文词源 hoary (adj.) 1510s, "gray or white with age" (of hair); c. 1600 as "venerable, ancient;" from hoar + -y (2). Related: Hoariness . 中文词源 hoary ：头发发白的，陈旧的 来自hoar,灰白的。引申词义头发灰白的，陈旧的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hoary 词源， hoary 含义。
• hoarse 英文词源 hoarse (adj.) late 14c., hors , earlier hos , from Old English has "hoarse," from Proto-Germanic *haisa- (cognates: Old Saxon hes , Old Norse hass , Dutch hees , Old High German heisi , German heiser "hoarse"), perhaps originally meaning "dried out, rough." The -r- is difficult to explain; it is first attested c. 1400, but it may indicate an unrecorded Old English variant *hars . Rela
• hoar frost 英文词源 meteor meteor: [15] Greek metéōron meant literally ‘something high up’, and was used to denote ‘phenomena in the sky or heavens’. It was a compound noun formed from the intensive prefix metá - and * eōr -, a variant form of the base of the verb aeírein ‘raise’. When English first took it over, via medieval Latin meteōrum , it was still in the sense ‘phenomenon of t
• hoarding 英文词源 hoarding "A large board in a public place, used to display advertisements", Early 19th century: from obsolete hoard in the same sense (probably based on Old French hourd ; related to hurdle ) + -ing 1 . 中文词源 hoarding ：围栏，大型广告牌 词源同hurdle,栏杆，跨栏，110米栏，ing,集合名词后缀。引申词义围栏，围栏上的广告牌，户外大型广告牌
• hoard 英文词源 hoard hoard: [OE] Etymologically, a hoard is ‘that which one hides’. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic * khuzdam , which was derived from the same base as the verb hide . ( Hoarding [19], incidentally, is not etymologically connected; it comes from an earlier hoard ‘fence’, which probably goes back via Old French hourd or hord to a prehistoric German form that also pr
• hoar 英文词源 hoar hoar: [OE] Hoar now survives mainly in hoary , a disparaging term for ‘old’, and hoarfrost , literally ‘white frost’. Between them, they encapsulate the meaning of hoar – ‘greyishwhite haired with age’. But it is the colour that is historically primary, not the age. The word goes back to an Indo-European * koi -, whose other descendants include German heiter ‘brig
• hoagie 英文词源 hoagie (n.) American English (originally Philadelphia) word for "hero, large sandwich made from a long, split roll;" originally hoggie (c. 1936), traditionally said to be named for Big Band songwriter Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981), but the use of the word pre-dates his celebrity and the original spelling seems to suggest another source (perhaps hog ). Modern spelling
• ho 英文词源 ho (interj.) exclamation of surprise, etc., c. 1300; as an exclamation calling attention or demanding silence, late 14c. Used after the name of a place to which attention is called (as in Westward-Ho ) it dates from 1590s, originally a cry of boatmen, etc., announcing departures for a particular destination. Ho-ho-ho expressing laughter is recorded from mid-12c. ho (n.) by 1993, Ameri
• hiya 英文词源 hiya "An informal greeting", 1940s: alteration of how are you? . 中文词源 hiya ：你好 缩写自hi,you. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hiya 词源， hiya 含义。
• hive 英文词源 hive hive: [OE] Hive comes ultimately from Indo- European * keup -, which denoted ‘round container, bowl’ and also produced Greek kúpellon ‘drinking vessel’, Latin cūpa ‘barrel’ (source of English coop , cooper , and cupola ), and its post-classical offshoot cuppa (whence English cup ). (A variant of the Indo-European base was the source of English head .) The Germanic d
• hitter 英文词源 chitter (v.) c. 1200, imitative of birds. Related: Chittered ; chittering . chitter-chatter (n.) 1712, reduplicated form of chatter (n.). As a verb from 1804. Related: Chitter-chattering . chitterlings (n.) late 13c., cheterlingis "entrails, souse" (early 13c. in surnames), origins obscure, but probably from an unrecorded Old English word having something to do with entrails (related
• hit squad 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random denounce denounce: see pronounce 中文词源 hit squad ：杀手团体 hit,击，打，squad,小组，队。比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hit squad 词源， hit squad 含义。
• hitherto 英文词源 hitherto (adv.) c. 1200, from hither + to . 中文词源 hitherto ：迄今 hither,这里，to,向。引申词义迄今。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hitherto 词源， hitherto 含义。
• hither 英文词源 hither (adv.) Old English hider , from Proto-Germanic *hideran (cognates: Old Norse heðra "here," Gothic hidre "hither"), from Germanic demonstrative base *hi- (compare he , here ). Spelling change from -d- to -th- is the same evolution seen in father , etc. Relation to here is the same as that of thither to there . 中文词源 hither ：到此处，向这里 来自Proto-Germanic*hi
• hitchhike 英文词源 hitchhike 1921 (n.), 1923 (v.), from hitch , from the notion of hitching a sled to a moving vehicle (a sense first recorded 1880) + hike . Related: Hitchhiked ; hitchhiking . Hitchhiker attested from 1927. 中文词源 hitchhike ：搭免费车，搭顺风车 hitch,钩住，hike,远足。原指把雪橇钩在移动的车辆上远足或移动。引申词义搭免费车，顺风车。 该
• hitch 英文词源 hitch (v.) mid-15c., probably from Middle English icchen "to move as with a jerk, to stir" (c. 1200). It lacks cognates in other languages. The connection with icchen may be in notion of "hitching up" pants or boots with a jerking motion. Sense of "become fastened," especially by a hook, first recorded 1570s, originally nautical. Meaning "to marry" is from 1844 (to hitch horses togeth
• hit-and-run 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random jaundice jaundice: [14] Jaundice is literally ‘yellowness’. The word came from Old French jaunice , which was a derivative of the adjective jaune ‘yellow’ (the d in the middle appeared towards the end of the 14th century). The derived adjective jaundiced [17] originally meant simply ‘suffering from jaundice’, but the
• hit 英文词源 hit hit: [11] Hit is one of those words, now so common that we assume it has always been around, that is in fact a comparative latecomer to the English language, and one, what is more, whose ancestry is not at all clear. The standard Old English verb for ‘strike’ was slēan (modern English slay ), but at the end of the Old English period hit suddenly appeared. It was borrowed from
• histrionic 英文词源 histrionic (adj.) "theatrical" (figuratively, "hypocritical"), 1640s, from Latin histrionicus "pertaining to an actor," from histrio (genitive histrionis ) "actor," said to be of Etruscan origin. The literal sense in English is from 1759. 中文词源 histrionic ：装腔作势的 来自拉丁语histrio,演员。引申词义装腔作势的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• history 英文词源 history history: [15] Etymologically, history denotes simply ‘knowledge’; its much more specific modern meaning is decidedly a secondary development. Its story begins with Greek hístōr ‘learned man’, a descendant of Indo-European * wid - ‘know, see’, which also produced English wit and Latin vidēre ‘see’. From hístōr was derived historíā ‘knowledge obtained by
• historiography 英文词源 historiography (n.) 1560s; see from history + -graphy . Related: Historiographer . 中文词源 historiography ：编史，历史编纂学 historio-,历史，-graphy,写，记录。引申词义编史。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： historiography 词源， historiography 含义。
• historicism 英文词源 historicism (n.) 1895, translating German historismus , from historic + -ism . Given various senses 20c. in theology, philosophy, architecture, etc. 中文词源 historicism ：历史主义，历史决定论 来自history,历史，-ism,主义，思想，学说。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： historicism 词源， historicism 含义。
• historian 英文词源 historian (n.) mid-15c., from Middle French historien (14c.), from Latin historia (see history ). As "writer of history in the higher sense" (distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler), from 1530s. The Old English word was þeod-wita . [T]he historian's fallacy is the error of assuming that a man who has a given historical experience knows it, when he has had it, to be all that
• histopathology 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random eerie eerie: [13] Eerie seems to come ultimately from Old English earg ‘cowardly’, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic * arg -, although the connection has not been established for certain. It emerged in Scotland and northern England in the 13th century in the sense ‘cowardly, fearful’, and it was not until the 18th cen
• histology 英文词源 histology (n.) "study of organic tissues," 1847, from histo- + -ology . 中文词源 histology ：组织学 histo,竖直，组织，-logy,学说。引申词义组织学。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： histology 词源， histology 含义。
• histogram 英文词源 histogram (n.) 1891, from histo- + -gram . 中文词源 histogram ：条形图，柱形图 histo,竖，直立，-gram,写，记录。引申词义条形图，柱形图。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： histogram 词源， histogram 含义。
• histo- 英文词源 histo- medical word-forming element, from Greek histos "warp, web," literally "anything set upright," from histasthai "to stand," from PIE *sta- "to stand" (see stet ). Taken by 19c. medical writers as the best Greek root from which to form terminology for "tissue." 中文词源 histo- ：竖直，组织 来自希腊语histos,竖直，组织，来自PIE*sta,站立，词源同stand,sta
• histamine 英文词源 histamine (n.) 1913, " amine produced by the decomposition of histidine ." 中文词源 histamine ：组胺 hist-,竖直，组织，amine,胺。用于化学名称组胺。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： histamine 词源， histamine 含义。
• hissy fit 英文词源 hissy fit "An angry outburst; a temper tantrum", 1930s (as hissy ): perhaps from hysterics (see hysteric ). 中文词源 hissy fit ：坏脾气 hissy,嘶嘶的，fit,发作，引申词义脾气。比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hissy fit 词源， hissy fit 含义。
• hiss 英文词源 hiss (v.) late 14c., of imitative origin. Johnson wrote, "it is remarkable, that this word cannot be pronounced without making the noise which it signifies." Related: Hissed ; hissing . hiss (n.) 1510s, from hiss (v.). 中文词源 hiss ：嘶嘶声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hiss 词源， hiss 含义。
• Hispanic 英文词源 Hispanic (adj.) "pertaining to Spain" (especially ancient Spain) 1580s, from Latin Hispanicus , from Hispania "Iberian Peninsula," from Hispanus "Spaniard" (see Spaniard ). Specific application to Spanish-speaking parts of the New World is 1889, American English; especially applied since c. 1972 to Spanish-speaking persons of Latin American descent living in U.S. 中文词源 Hispanic
• his 英文词源 his his: [OE] His originated as the standard genitive form of the masculine personal pronoun he , with the genitive ending - s – what in modern English would be expressed as of him . But comparatively early in the Old English period it began to replace the ancestral third person possessive adjective sīn (a relative of modern German sein ‘his’), and by the year 1000 it was also
• hirsute 英文词源 hirsute (adj.) "hairy," 1620s, from Latin hirsutus "rough, shaggy, bristly," figuratively "rude, unpolished," related to hirtus "shaggy," and possibly to horrere "to bristle with fear," from PIE *ghers-tu- , from root *ghers- "to bristle" (see horror ). 中文词源 hirsute ：多毛的 来自拉丁语hirsutus,多毛的，粗糙的，词源同hair. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• Hiroshima 英文词源 Hiroshima city in Japan, literally "broad island," from Japanese hiro "broad" + shima "island." So called in reference to its situation on the delta of the Ota River. 中文词源 Hiroshima ：广岛 日本城市，来自hiro,宽的，shima,岛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hiroshima 词源， Hiroshima 含义。
• hireling 英文词源 hireling (n.) "one who works for hire," Old English hyrling ; see hire + -ling . As an adjective by 1580s. 中文词源 hireling ：给奶就叫娘的人 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hireling 词源， hireling 含义。
• hire 英文词源 hire hire: [OE] Hire probably originated in North Germany, in the area where the set of dialects known as Low German was spoken. It comes from a prehistoric * khūr -, which also produced Dutch huren (Swedish hyra and Danish hyre were borrowed from Low German). hire (v.) Old English hyrian "pay for service, employ for wages, engage," from Proto-Germanic *hurjan (cognates: Danish hyre
• hiragana 英文词源 hiragana (n.) from Japanese hiragana , from hira "plain" + kana "borrowed letter(s)." 中文词源 hiragana ：日语中的平假名 来自日语，hira,平，词源可能同Hiroshima,-gana,假名，即kana,来自日本汉字kariru,借，na,字。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hiragana 词源， hiragana 含义。
• hipsters 英文词源 hipster (n.) 1941, "one who is hip;" from hip (adj.) + -ster . Meaning "low-rise" in reference to pants or skirt is from 1962; so called because they ride on the hips rather than the waist (see hiphuggers ). Related: Hipsters . 中文词源 hipsters ：低腰长裤 hip,时尚的，-ster,人。原为hippy的别称，但现在用于hip-huggers的别称。 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• hippy 英文词源 hippy (adj.) "having prominent hips," 1919, from hip (n.1) + -y (2). 中文词源 hippy ：嬉皮士 来自hip,时髦的，时尚的。字面意思即时尚的人，用于指上世纪60年代拒绝西方主流生活方式的人的代称，常为留长发，衣着鲜艳，吸毒的堕落的年青人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hippy 词源， hippy 含义。
• hippopotamus 英文词源 hippopotamus hippopotamus: [16] Etymologically, a hippopotamus is a ‘river horse’. The word comes, via Latin, from late Greek hippopótamos , a lexicalization of an earlier phrase híppos ho potámios , literally ‘horse of the river’. Other English descendants of híppos (a relative of Latin equus ‘horse’) include hippodrome [16], from a Greek compound that meant originall
• hippo- 英文词源 hippo- before vowels, hipp- , word-forming element meaning "horse," from Greek hippo- , from hippos "horse," from PIE *ekwo- (see equine ). 中文词源 hippo- ：马 来自希腊语hippos,马，来自PIE*ekwo,马，词源同equine. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hippo- 词源， hippo- 含义。
• hippie 英文词源 hippie (n.) c. 1965, American English (Haight-Ashbury slang); earlier hippie , 1953, was a usually disparaging variant of hipster (1941) "person who is keenly aware of the new and stylish," from hip "up-to-date" (see hip (adj.)). 中文词源 hippie ：嬉皮士 来自hippy拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hippie 词源， hippie 含义。
• hip-huggers 英文词源 hiphuggers (n.) also hip-huggers , "low-rise pants or skirt," 1966, from hip + agent noun from hug . So called because they are slung from the hips, not the waist. Earlier as the name of a cut of women's swimsuit (1963). 中文词源 hip-huggers ：低腰长裤 hip,臀部，hug,拥抱。比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hip-huggers 词源， hip-hu
• hip hop 英文词源 hip hop also hip-hop , music style, first recorded 1982. Reduplication with vowel variation (as in tip-top , sing-song ); OED reports use of hip hop with a sense of "successive hopping motion" dating back to 1670s. The term in its modern sense comes from its use in the early rap lyrics of the genre, notably Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and The Sugarhill Gang in "Rapper's Del
• hip flask 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random turret turret: see tower 中文词源 hip flask ：小扁酒瓶 hip,臀部，flask,酒瓶。比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hip flask 词源， hip flask 含义。
• hip 英文词源 hip hip: English has two hips . The anatomical hip [OE] comes from a prehistoric Germanic * khupiz , whose formal and semantic similarity to Greek kúbos ‘six-sided figure’, hence ‘pelvic cavity’ (source of English cube ) suggests that the two may be related. The rose- hip [OE] goes back to a West Germanic * kheup -, which survives also in Dutch joop ‘rose-hip’. = cube hip
• hinterland 英文词源 hinterland (n.) 1890, from German Hinterland , from hinter "behind" (see hinder (adj.)) + Land "land" (see land (n.)). 中文词源 hinterland ：内陆，内地 来自德语Hinterland,内陆，来自hinter,后面的，词源同hinder,land,土地。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hinterland 词源， hinterland 含义。
• hint 英文词源 hint (n.) c. 1600, apparently from obsolete hent , from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c. 1400), from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.). Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare. hint (v.) 1640s, from hint (n.). Related: Hinted ; hinting . 中文词源 hint ：暗示 来自中
• Hinglish 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random mellifluous mellifluous: see flux , molasses 中文词源 Hinglish ：印度英语 来自Hindi和English的合成词。比较Chinglish. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hinglish 词源， Hinglish 含义。
• hinge 英文词源 hinge hinge: [13] Hinge is generally agreed to be related to the verb hang , and to mean etymologically ‘something on which a door hangs’, but the circumstances of its formation are obscure (as indeed are the reasons for its rhyming with singe , a 16th-century development; before that it rhymed with sing ). = hang hinge (n.) c. 1300, "the axis of the earth;" late 14c. as "movable
• Hinduism 英文词源 Hinduism (n.) blanket term for "polytheism of India," 1829, from Hindu + -ism . 中文词源 Hinduism ：印度教 Hindu-,印度，-ism,主义，思想，宗教。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hinduism 词源， Hinduism 含义。
• Hindustan 英文词源 Hindustan 1610s, from Persian, literally "country of the Hindus;" see Hindu + -stan . 中文词源 Hindustan ：印度 Hindu-,印度，-stan,国家，词源同stand,state. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hindustan 词源， Hindustan 含义。
• Hindu 英文词源 Hindu 1660s, from Persian Hindu (adjective and noun) "Indian," from Hind "India," from Sanskrit sindhu "river," specifically the Indus; hence "region of the Indus," gradually extended across northern India. The Hindu Kush mountain range is said to mean literally "Indian killer," and was said to have been the name given by the Persians to a pass where their Indian slaves had perished i
• hindsight 英文词源 hindsight (n.) by 1841, "backsight of a firearm," from hind (adj.) + sight . Meaning "seeing what has happened" is attested by 1862, American English, (in proverbial "If our foresight was as good as our hindsight, it would be an easy matter to get rich"), probably a formation on the model of foresight . 中文词源 hindsight ：事后聪明，事后诸葛亮 hind,后面的，sight,看。
• hindrance 英文词源 hindrance (n.) mid-15c., a hybrid from hindren , from same root as hinder (v.), on model of French-derived words in -ance . 中文词源 hindrance ：妨碍，阻挡 来自hinder,妨碍，阻挡。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hindrance 词源， hindrance 含义。
• hindquarters 英文词源 ampersand (n.) 1837, contraction of and per se and , meaning "(the character) '' by itself is 'and' " (a hybrid phrase, partly in Latin, partly in English). The symbol is based on the Latin word et "and," and comes from an old Roman system of shorthand signs ( ligatures ), attested in Pompeiian graffiti, but not (as sometimes stated) from the Tironian Notes , which was a different for
• hindlimb 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random resin resin: [14] Resin comes via Old French resine and Latin resīna from Greek rhētínē ‘resin’, a word of unknown origin. A collateral form that arose in medieval Latin was rosīna , which has given English rosin [14]. = rosin 中文词源 hindlimb ：后腿 hind,后面的，limb,肢体，腿。 该词的英语词源请访
• Hindi 英文词源 Hindi 1825 as an adjective; 1880 as a language name, from Hind "India" (see Hindu ) + -i , suffix expressing relationship. 中文词源 Hindi ：印地语 印度官方语言之一，词源同India. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Hindi 词源， Hindi 含义。
• hinder 英文词源 hinder (v.) Old English hindrian "to harm, injure, impair, check, repress," from Proto-Germanic *hinderojan (cognates: Old Norse hindra , Dutch hinderen , Old High German hintaron , German hindern "to keep back"), from a root meaning "on that side of, behind" (see hind (adj.)); thus the ground sense is "to put or keep back," though this sense in English is recorded only from late 14c.
• hindbrain 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random confetti confetti: [19] The Latin compound verb conficere meant ‘put together, make, prepare’ (it was formed from the prefix com - and facere ‘do, make’, source of English fact , factory , fashion , etc and related to English do ). From its past participial stem was formed the noun confectiō , which passed into English,
• hind 英文词源 hind hind: English has two words hind . The adjective meaning ‘rear’ [13] probably came mainly from behind , a compound formed in Old English times from bi - ‘by’ and hindan ‘from behind’, whose ultimate origins are unknown. Related are German hinter ‘behind’, the first element of hinterland , which English borrowed in the 19th century, and the verb hinder [OE], etymol
• Himalaya 英文词源 Himalaya from Sanskrit himalayah, literally "abode of snow," from hima "snow" (see hibernation ) + alaya "abode." Related: Himalayas ; Himalayan . 中文词源 Himalaya ：喜马拉雅山 来自梵语himalayah,终年积雪之地，hima,雪，词源同hiemal,hibernation,alaya,住所。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Himalaya 词源， Himalaya 含义。
• him 英文词源 him him: [OE] Him was originally the dative case of Old English hē ‘he’, which in the late Old English period gradually started to take over from the original accusative hine as the general object form (the ’ un or ’ n still occasionally found in southern English dialects for ‘him’ may represent the last vestiges of this). The dative ending - m is also found in, for examp
• hilum 英文词源 hilum (n.) Latin, literally "little thing, shred, trifle." Related: Hilar . 中文词源 hilum ：琐事 来自拉丁语hilum,琐事，小事，词源同nil,nihilism. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hilum 词源， hilum 含义。
• hilt 英文词源 hilt (n.) Old English hilt "hilt, handle of a sword or dagger," from Proto-Germanic *helt (cognates: Old Norse hjalt , Old High German helza "hilt," Old Saxon helta "oar handle"), perhaps from PIE *kel- (1) "to strike." Formerly also used in plural in same sense as singular. 中文词源 hilt ：剑柄 来自Proto-Germanic*helt,可能来自PIE*kel,击，打，砍，词源同clone,clea
• hillock 英文词源 hillock (n.) late 14c., hilloc "small hill" (c. 1200 as a surname), from hill + Middle English diminutive suffix -oc . 中文词源 hillock ：山丘 hill,小山，-ock,小词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： hillock 词源， hillock 含义。
• hillbilly 英文词源 hillbilly (n.) "southern Appalachian U.S. resident," by 1892, from hill + masc. proper name Billy/Billie . Then again, I do not think It will do so well. I would hate to see some old railroad man come here and take my job, and then, I don t think It is right to hire some Hill Billy and give him the same right as I just because he was hired the same time I was. ["The Railroad Trainmen'