英语词源

• brushfire 英文词源 brushfire (n.) 1850, from brush (n.2) + fire (n.). 中文词源 brushfire ：小规模的 该词系美国西部边疆的早期移民所创，原指“灌丛火”，以别于森林大火。灌丛火一般较易控制，因其规模小。嗣后brushfire逐渐被用作形容词，表示“小规模的”，如a brushfire war（灌木林火战争），a brushfire labor dispute（小规模劳
• buckaroo 英文词源 buckaroo (n.) 1889, American English, from bakhara (1827), from Spanish vaquero "cowboy," from vaca "cow," from Latin vacca (see vaccination ). Spelling altered by influence of buck (n.1). 中文词源 buckaroo ：牛仔 亦作buckeroo，是西班牙语借用词vaquero（牛仔）之变体，更确切地说是讹误。它之所以能进人英语词语行列，很可能是因为人们往
• bull's-eye 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pine pine: [OE] English has two words pine . The treename was borrowed from Latin pīnus , which some have traced to the Indo-European base * pīt - ‘resin’ (source of English pituitary [17]). Pine-cones were originally called pineapples [14], but in the mid 17th century the name was transferred to the tropical plant whose j
• B 英文词源 B second letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to Greek beta , Phoenician beth , literally "house." It "has nothing of that variety of pronunciation shown by most English letters" [Century Dictionary]. The Germanic "b" is said to represent a "bh" sound in Proto-Indo-European, which continued as "bh" in Sanskrit, became "ph" in Greek ( brother /Greek phrater ; bear (v.)/Greek phe
• bagel 英文词源 bagel (n.) 1919, from Yiddish beygl , from Middle High German boug- "ring, bracelet," from Old High German boug "a ring," related to Old English beag "ring" (in poetry, an Anglo-Saxon lord was beaggifa "ring-giver"), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz , from PIE root *bheug- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (such as Old High German biogan "to bend
• bel- 英文词源 beldam (n.) "aged woman," 1570s; earlier "grandmother" (mid-15c.), from dame (q.v.) in the sense of "mother" + bel- , Middle English prefix expressing relationship (as in belfader , belsire "grandfather"), from Old French bel , belle "beautiful, fair, fine" (see belle ). This "direct relationship" sense of bel is not found in French, where the prefix is used to form words for in-laws.
• byre 英文词源 byre (n.) "cow-shed," Old English byre , perhaps related to bur "cottage, dwelling, house" (see bower ). 中文词源 byre ：牛棚 词源同booth, bothy. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： byre 词源， byre 含义。
• by-pass 英文词源 bypass (n.) also by-pass , 1848, of certain pipes in a gasworks, from by + pass (n.). First used 1922 for "road for the relief of congestion;" figurative sense is from 1928. The heart operation was first so called 1957. 中文词源 by-pass ：旁道 by, 旁边。pass, 通过。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： by-pass 词源， by-pass 含义。
• by-law 英文词源 by-law "A regulation made by a local authority or corporation", Middle English: probably from obsolete byrlaw 'local law or custom', from Old Norse býjar , genitive singular of býr 'town', but associated with by. 中文词源 by-law ：地方法规 by, 名词义指地方，当地。见Derby, 鹿镇。law, 法规。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： by-law 词源，
• bye 英文词源 bye (1) in sporting use, a variant of by (prep). Originally in cricket, "a run scored on a ball that is missed by the wicket-keeper" (1746); later, in other sports, "position of one who is left without a competitor when the rest have drawn pairs" (1883), originally in lawn-tennis. bye (2) shortened form of good-bye . Reduplication bye-bye is recorded from 1709, though as a sound used
• by 英文词源 by by: [OE] By comes from a prehistoric Germanic * bi , which appears ultimately to be the same form as the second syllable of Latin ambi - (as in ambidextrous ), Greek amphí (as in amphitheatre ), and Old English ymbe , all of which meant ‘on both sides, round’. The original meaning of by thus seems to be ‘close to, near’. By is the basis of the prefix be -, as in befall and
• bwana 英文词源 bwana respectful or reverential form of address in East Africa, 1878, from Swahili. 中文词源 bwana ：老板 来自非洲斯瓦西里语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bwana 词源， bwana 含义。
• buzzard 英文词源 buzzard (n.) c. 1300, from Old French buisart "buzzard, harrier, inferior hawk," from buson , buison , from Latin buteonem (nominative buteo ) a kind of hawk, perhaps with -art suffix for one that carries on some action or possesses some quality, with derogatory connotation (see -ard ). 中文词源 buzzard ：鵟 来自拉丁buteo, 鹰。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• buzz 英文词源 buzz (v.) late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941 (see buzz (n.)). Related: Buzzed ; buzzing . Buzz off (1914) originally meant "to ring off on the telephone," from the use of buzzers to signal a call or message on old systems. As a command, it originally would have been telling someone to get off the line. buzz (n.) "a busy rumour
• buy 英文词源 buy buy: [OE] Buy has relatives in most other Germanic languages, with the exception of German, and can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic * bugjan (the Old English form was bycgan ), but no non-Germanic connections have ever been identified buy (v.) Old English bycgan (past tense bohte ) "to buy, pay for, acquire; redeem, ransom; procure; get done," from Proto-Germanic *bugjan
• buxom 英文词源 buxom buxom: [12] Originally, buxom meant ‘obedient’. It goes back to an unrecorded * būhsum , which meant literally ‘capable of being bent’, and was formed from the verb būgan ‘bend’, from which modern English gets bow . The sequence by which the word’s present-day sense developed seems to have been ‘compliant, obliging’, ‘lively, jolly’, ‘healthily plump an
• butty 英文词源 butty (n.) "slice of bread and butter," 1855, northern English, from butter (n.) + -y (2). 中文词源 butty ：三明治 来自butter, 黄油。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： butty 词源， butty 含义。
• button 英文词源 button button: [14] Button comes via Old French bouton from Vulgar Latin * botōne , a word connected with the verb * hottāre ‘thrust’ (from which ultimately English gets butt ‘hit with the head’). The underlying notion contained in button is thus of something which pushes up, thrusts itself outwards, rather like a bud growing on a plant; the fact that the resulting round kno
• buttock 英文词源 buttock (n.) late 13c., singular of buttocks (q.v.). 中文词源 buttock ：屁股 来自butt, 撞，屁股。-ock, 小词后缀，常含贬义。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： buttock 词源， buttock 含义。
• butter 英文词源 butter butter: [OE] The ultimate source of butter is Greek boútūron . This is usually said to be a compound noun, formed from boús ‘cow’ and tūros ‘cheese’, but not all etymologists accept the admittedly attractive hypothesis that butter was once ‘cow-cheese’, preferring to see the Greek word as a foreign borrowing. In Latin it became būtyrum (from which came French b
• butte 英文词源 butte (n.) 1805, American English, from French butte , from Old French but "mound, knoll" (see butt (n.3)). A French word introduced in Lewis Clark's journals. 中文词源 butte ：地垛 来自butte, 撞，相接。同abut, 毗邻。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： butte 词源， butte 含义。
• butch 英文词源 butch (n.) "tough youth," 1902, first attested in nickname of U.S. outlaw George Cassidy (1866-?), probably an abbreviation of butcher (n.). Sense of "aggressive lesbian" is 1940s. 中文词源 butch ：男性化的 来自buck, 雄鹿。插入字母t. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： butch 词源， butch 含义。
• butane 英文词源 butane (n.) paraffin hydrocarbon, 1875, from butyl , hydrocarbon from butyric acid , a product of fermentation found in rancid butter, from Latin butyrum (see butter (n.)) + chemical suffix -ane . 中文词源 butane ：丁烷 but, 来自butter, 一种黄油发酵后的产物。-ane, 化学名词后缀，烷。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： butane 词源， bu
• but 英文词源 but but: [OE] But originally meant ‘outside’. It was a compound word formed in prehistoric West Germanic from * be (source of English by ) and * ūtana (related to English out ). This gave Old English būtan , which quickly developed in meaning from ‘outside’ to ‘without, except’, as in ‘all but me’ (the sense ‘outside’ survived longer in Scotland than elsewhere).
• busy Lizzie 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random sage sage: see safe 中文词源 busy Lizzie ：指甲花 busy形容这种花的籽荚一触即爆，所以别名touch me not. Lizzie, 普通女性名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： busy Lizzie 词源， busy Lizzie 含义。
• busy 英文词源 busy busy: [OE] Busy goes back to an Old English bisig , which also meant ‘occupied’. Apart from Dutch bezig , it has no apparent relatives in any Indo-European language, and it is not known where it came from. The sense ‘inquisitive’, from which we get busybody [16], developed in the late 14th century. Business was originally simply a derivative formed from busy by adding the
• bustle 英文词源 bustle (v.) "be active," 1570s ( bustling "noisy or excited activity" is from early 15c.), frequentative of Middle English bresten "to rush, break," from Old English bersten (see burst (v.)), influenced by Old Norse buask "to make oneself ready" (see busk (v.)), or from busk (v.) via a frequentative form buskle . Related: Bustled ; bustling ; bustler . bustle (n.2) "padding in a skirt
• bustier 英文词源 bustier (n.) 1979, from French bustier , from buste "bust" (see bust (n.1)). 中文词源 bustier ：紧身女胸衣 来自bust, 胸部。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bustier 词源， bustier 含义。
• buster 英文词源 buster (n.) 1838, "anything large; a man of great strength," American English slang (originally Missouri/Arkansas), perhaps meaning something that takes one's breath away and an agent noun from bust (v.). Around the same years, buster (as an extended form of bust (n.)) also meant "a frolic, a spree." Hence "a roistering blade" (OED; probably not the favored definition in old Missouri
• bustard 英文词源 bustard bustard: [15] Bustard (the name of a large game bird now extinct in Britain) is something of a mystery word. Old French had two terms for the bird, bistarde and oustarde , both of which come from Latin avis tarda , literally ‘slow bird’ (Latin tardus gave English tardy [15]). This, according to the Roman writer Pliny, was what the bird was called in Spain. It has been obje
• busk 英文词源 busk (n.) "strip of wood, whalebone, etc., used in corset-making," 1590s, probably from French busc (16c.), from Italian bosco "splinter," of Germanic origin (see bush (n.)). busk (v.) "to prepare, to dress oneself," also "to go, set out," c. 1300, probably from Old Norse buask "to prepare oneself," reflexive of bua "to prepare" (see bound (adj.2)) + contraction of Old Norse reflexive
• business 英文词源 business (n.) Old English bisignes (Northumbrian) "care, anxiety, occupation," from bisig "careful, anxious, busy, occupied, diligent" (see busy (adj.)) + -ness . Middle English sense of "state of being much occupied or engaged" (mid-14c.) is obsolete, replaced by busyness . Sense of "a person's work, occupation" is first recorded late 14c. (in late Old English bisig (adj.) appears as
• bushwhacker 英文词源 bushwhacker (n.) also bush-whacker , 1809, American English, literally "one who beats the bushes" (to make his way through), perhaps modeled on Dutch bosch-wachter "forest keeper;" see bush (n.) + whack (v.). In American Civil War, "irregular who took to the woods" (1862), variously regarded as patriot guerillas or as freebooters. Hence bushwhack (v.), 1837; bushwhacking (1826). 中文词
• bush telegraph 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random endeavour endeavour: [14] Despite its plausible appearance, endeavour is not a borrowing from French or Latin but a purely English creation. It was coined from the Middle English phrase put in dever , which was a partial translation of Old French mettre en deveir , literally ‘put in duty’, hence ‘make it one’s duty to do
• bushido 英文词源 bushido (n.) 1898, from Japanese, said to mean literally "military-knight way." 中文词源 bushido ：武士道 来自日语，最终来自汉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bushido 词源， bushido 含义。
• bushel 英文词源 bushel (n.) early 14c., measure of capacity containing four pecks or eight gallons, from Old French boissel "bushel" (13c., Modern French boisseau ), probably from boisse , a grain measure based on Gallo-Roman *bostia "handful," from Gaulish *bosta "palm of the hand" (compare Irish bass , Breton boz "the hollow of the hand"). The exact measure varied from place to place and according
• bush 英文词源 bush bush: [13] Bush comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic * busk -, which also produced German busch ‘bush’. There is no actual record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed as * bysc . The Germanic base was also borrowed into the Romance languages, where in French it eventually produced bois ‘wood’. A diminutive form of this gave English bouquet [18], whi
• busby 英文词源 busby busby: [18] Busby originally meant ‘large bushy wig’, and so may be related to buzz wig , a term with similar meaning current during the 19th century (and perhaps the inspiration for Sergeant Buzfuz, the lawyer in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers ). The application to the full-dress fur hat worn by hussars in the British army dates from the early 19th century, but its extension t
• busboy 英文词源 busboy (n.) also bus-boy , 1913, from bus (v.) in the restaurant sense + boy . 中文词源 busboy ：餐厅勤杂工 bus, 餐车。boy, 小男孩。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： busboy 词源， busboy 含义。
• bury 英文词源 bury bury: [OE] Modern English bury is a descendant of Old English byrgan , which came from the Germanic base * burg - (source also of English borough ). The underlying meaning of the base was ‘protection, shelter’, and in the case of bury this referred to ‘covering a dead body with earth’ (in Old English, bury applied only to interment; the general sense ‘put underground’
• burton 英文词源 burton (1) "Meet with disaster; be ruined, destroyed, or killed", Second World War (originally RAF slang): perhaps referring to Burton ale, from Burton upon Trent. burton (2) "A light two-block tackle for hoisting", Early 18th century: alteration of Middle English Breton tackle , a nautical term in the same (see Breton ). 中文词源 burton ：失踪 常用于习语gone for a burton。
• burst 英文词源 burst burst: [OE] In Old English, burst meant simply ‘break suddenly and sharply’; the modern connotation of ‘breaking open owing to internal pressure’ developed in the 16th century. The word comes from a prehistoric West and North Germanic * brestan , which can be traced back to an Indo-European base * bhrest - (this has been linked with medieval Irish brosc ‘noise’). bur
• bursitis 英文词源 bursitis (n.) 1834, "inflammation of the bursa ;" also see -itis . 中文词源 bursitis ：滑囊炎 bursa, 同purse, 钱包。此处指鼓起来的，囊。-itis, 疾病后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bursitis 词源， bursitis 含义。
• bursary 英文词源 bursary (n.) "treasury," 1690s, from Medieval Latin bursaria "treasurer's room," from bursarius (see bursar ). 中文词源 bursary ：(大学）奖学金 来自拉丁语 bursa, 词源同purse, 钱包。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bursary 词源， bursary 含义。
• bursar 英文词源 bursar bursar: see purse bursar (n.) "treasurer of a college," 1580s, from Anglo-Latin burser "treasurer" (13c.), from Medieval Latin bursarius "purse-bearer," from bursa (see purse (n.)). Related: Bursarial . 中文词源 bursar ：（学校）财务主管 bursa, 同purse, 钱包。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bursar 词源， bursar 含义。
• burrow 英文词源 burrow burrow: see borough burrow (n.) "rabbit-hole, fox-hole, etc.," c. 1300, borewe , from Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress" (see borough ); influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge." burrow (v.) c. 1600, "to place in a burrow, from burrow (n.). Figuratively (such as to burrow (one's) head ) by 1862. Intransitive sense, "to bore one's way into, penetrate
• burro 英文词源 burro (n.) "donkey," 1800, from Spanish burrico "donkey," from Late Latin burricus "small, shaggy horse," probably from burrus "reddish-brown," from Greek pyrros "flame-colored, yellowish-red," from pyr (genitive pyros ) "fire," from PIE root *paəwr- "fire" (see fire (n.)). Or, for its shaggy hair, from Late Latin burra "wool." 中文词源 burro ：小驴 来自拉丁词burra, 羊毛，
• burrito 英文词源 burrito (n.) Mexican food dish, 1934, from Spanish, literally "little burro" (see burro ). 中文词源 burrito ：（墨西哥）肉馅饼 西班牙语。来自burro, 小驴，因这种馅饼像小驴驮的铺盖卷而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burrito 词源， burrito 含义。
• burr 英文词源 burr (n.) "rough sound of the letter -r- " (especially that common in Northumberland), 1760, later extended to "northern accented speech" in general. Possibly the sound of the word is imitative of the speech peculiarity itself, or it was adapted from one of the senses of bur (q.v.), perhaps from the phrase to have a bur in (one's) throat (late 14c.), which was a figure of speech for "
• burp 英文词源 burp 1932, noun and verb, American English, apparently imitative. The transitive sense of the verb is first recorded 1940. Related: Burped ; burping . Burp gun attested from 1945. 中文词源 burp ：打嗝 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burp 词源， burp 含义。
• burnous 英文词源 burnous "A long, loose hooded cloak worn by Arabs", Late 16th century: French, from Arabic burnus , from Greek birros 'cloak'. 中文词源 burnous ：布尔努斯袍（阿拉伯人穿的带风帽长外衣） 来自阿拉伯语，最终来自希腊语birros，斗蓬，词源同beret, 贝雷帽。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burnous 词源， burnous 含义。
• burn 英文词源 burn burn: [OE] English has two separate words burn . The commoner, relating to ‘fire’, is actually a conflation of two Old English verbs: birnan , which was intransitive, and bærnan , which was transitive. Both come ultimately from the Germanic base * bren -, * bran -, which also produced brand and possibly broil , and was the source of German brennen and Swedish brinna ‘burn’
• burly 英文词源 burly burly: [13] Burly has come down in the world over the centuries. Originally it meant ‘excellent, noble, stately’, and it appears to come from an unrecorded Old English adjective * būrlic , literally ‘bowerly’ – that is, ‘fit to frequent a lady’s apartment’. Gradually, connotations of ‘stoutness’ and ‘sturdiness’ began to take over, and by the 15th centur
• burlap 英文词源 burlap (n.) 1690s, probably from Middle English borel "coarse cloth," from Old French burel (see bureau ); or Dutch boeren "coarse," perhaps confused with boer "peasant." The second element, -lap , meant "piece of cloth" (see lap (n.)). 中文词源 burlap ：粗麻布 bur, 芒刺，形容粗糙。lap, 膝，一块布。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burlap 词源
• burka 英文词源 burka (n.) 1836, from Hindi, from Arabic burqa' . 中文词源 burka ：布尔卡（穆斯林女人在公共场合所穿戴的女袍） 来自阿拉伯语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burka 词源， burka 含义。
• Burgundy 英文词源 Burgundy (n.) 1670s, "wine made in Burgundy ," region and former duchy in France. The place name is from Medieval Latin Burgundia , from Late Latin Burgundiones , literally "highlanders," from PIE *bhrgh-nt- "high, mighty," from root *bhrgh- "high" (see borough ). 中文词源 Burgundy ：勃艮地葡萄酒 产自法国Burgundy。burg, 高，高地。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• burgoo 英文词源 burgoo "A stew or thick soup, typically one served at an outdoor meal", From Arabic burġul (see burghul ). 中文词源 burgoo ：杂烩汤 来自阿拉伯语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burgoo 词源， burgoo 含义。
• burglar 英文词源 burglar burglar: [15] The first trace we have of burglar is as burgulator in 13th-century Anglo-Latin texts, and it appears in Anglo-Norman legal documents of the 15th century as burgler . These point to an unrecorded medieval Latin base * burg - ‘plunder’, which appears in Old French burgur ‘robber’. The verb burgle is a 19thcentury back-formation from burglar . burglar (n.)
• burgh 英文词源 burgh "A borough or chartered town", Late Middle English: Scots form of borough.Moreborough from Old English:The early words burg and burh meant ‘a fortress’. Later they became ‘a fortified town’ and eventually ‘town’, ‘district’. Burgh is a Scots form. Burgher (mid 16th century) meaning ‘inhabitant of a borough’ was reinforced by Dutch burger , from burg ‘castle’
• burger 英文词源 burger (n.) 1939, American English, shortened from hamburger (q.v.). 中文词源 burger ：汉堡饼 衍生自hamburger, 汉堡包，来自德国城市Hamburg. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burger 词源， burger 含义。
• burg 英文词源 burg (n.) "town or city," 1843, American English colloquial, from many place names ending in -burg (see borough ; also see -ville ). 中文词源 burg ：镇 来自PIE *bhergh, 高，高山。原指建于山上的城堡。同berg, borough. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burg 词源， burg 含义。
• burette 英文词源 burette (n.) 1836, from French burette "small vase, cruet," diminutive of buire "vase for liquors," in Old French "jug," variant of buie (12c.) "bottle, water jog," from Frankish *buk- or some similar Germanic source (see bucket (n.)). As a laboratory measuring tube, from 1836. 中文词源 burette ：量管 来自PIE *bheu, 膨胀，同bucket. -ette, 小词后缀。 该词的英语词源
• burdock 英文词源 burdock (n.) coarse, weedy plant, 1590s, from bur + dock (n.3). 中文词源 burdock ：牛蒂 bur, 芒刺。dock, 酸模植物。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burdock 词源， burdock 含义。
• burden 英文词源 burden burden: There are two distinct words burden in English. By far the older, ‘load’, comes from Old English byrthen . Like bear , birth , bairn , bier , barrow , and berth it goes back ultimately to an Indo-European base * bher -, which signified both ‘carry’ and ‘give birth’. Its immediate Germanic ancestor was * burthi -, which also gave German bürde ‘load’. The
• burble 英文词源 burble (v.) "make a bubbling sound," c. 1300, imitative. Related: Burbled ; burbling . 中文词源 burble ：含混不清的说话 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： burble 词源， burble 含义。
• bur 英文词源 bur (n.) "prickly seed vessel of some plants," c. 1300, burre , from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish borre , Swedish hard-borre , Old Norse burst "bristle"), from PIE *bhars- (see bristle (n.)). Transferred 1610s to "rough edge on metal," which might be the source of the sense "rough sound of the letter -r- " (see burr ). 中文词源 bur ：芒刺，多刺果 来自PIE *bhars, 刺
• buppie 英文词源 yuppie yuppie: [20] Yuppie is an acronym, formed in the USA from the initial letters of ‘young urban professional’. It came on the scene in 1984, and at first competed with yumpie (formed from ‘young upwardly mobile people’). It was yuppie which won out, and indeed has thrived to such an extent as to produce a whole range of (more or less ephemeral) clones such as buppie ‘bl
• bunyip 英文词源 bunyip (n.) 1848, fabulous swamp-dwelling animal (supposedly inspired by fossil bones), from an Australian aborigine language. 中文词源 bunyip ：本耶普，水怪 来自澳大利亚土著语，指水怪。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bunyip 词源， bunyip 含义。
• bunting 英文词源 bunting bunting: Bunting ‘bird’ [13] and bunting ‘flags’ [18] are presumably two distinct words, although in neither case do we really know where they come from. There was a now obsolete English adjective bunting , first recorded in the 16th century, which meant ‘plump, rounded, short and thick’ (could a subliminal memory of it have been in Frank Richards’s mind when he
• bunt 英文词源 bunt bunt: see punt bunt (v.) 1825, "to strike with the head or horns," perhaps an alteration of butt (v.) with a goat in mind, or a survival from Middle English bounten "to return." As a baseball term from 1889. Related: Bunted ; bunting . bunt (n.) 1767, "a push;" see bunt (v.). Baseball sense is from 1889. 中文词源 bunt ：触击 词源同beat , 击，打。 该词的英语词源
• Bunsen burner 英文词源 Bunsen burner 1879, named for Prof. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) of Heidelberg, who invented it in 1855. He also was co-inventor of the spectroscope. 中文词源 Bunsen burner ：本生灯 由19世纪德国化学家Robert Bunsen发明并以其名命名的化学试验仪器。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Bunsen burner 词源， Bunsen burner 含义。
• bunny 英文词源 bunny (n.) 1680s, diminutive of Scottish dialectal bun , pet name for "rabbit," previously (1580s) for "squirrel," and also a term of endearment for a young attractive woman or child (c. 1600). Ultimately it could be from Scottish bun "tail of a hare" (1530s), or from French bon , or from a Scandinavian source. The Playboy Club hostess sense is from 1960. The Bunny Hug (1912), along w
• bunkum 英文词源 bunkum bunkum: [19] Buncombe is a county of North Carolina, USA. Around 1820, during a debate in the US Congress, its representative Felix Walker rose to make a speech. He spoke on – and on – and on. Fellow congressmen pleaded with him to sit down, but he refused to be deflected, declaring that he had to make a speech ‘for Buncombe’. Most of what he said was fatuous and irrele
• bunker 英文词源 bunker (n.) 1758, originally Scottish, "seat, bench," of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of banker "bench" (1670s; see bank (n.2)); possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Swedish bunke "boards used to protect the cargo of a ship"). Of golf courses, first recorded 1824, from extended sense "earthen seat" (1805); meaning "dug-out fortification" probably is from World War
• bunion 英文词源 bunion bunion: [18] Bunion is probably a modification of the East Anglian dialect word bunny ‘lump, swelling’, representing a 15th-century form bony , glossed in a contemporary English-Latin dictionary as ‘great knob’. This was apparently borrowed from Old French hugne ‘bump on the head’. bunion (n.) 1718, apparently from East Anglian dialectic bunny "lump, swelling" (16c.
• bungee 英文词源 bungee (n.) 1930, "elastic rope;" used in late 19c. British schoolboy slang for "rubber eraser;" probably from notions of bouncy and spongy ; first record of bungee jumping is from 1979. 中文词源 bungee ：蹦极 词源不详。可能来自bouncy 和 spongy的复合词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bungee 词源， bungee 含义。
• bung 英文词源 bung (n.) mid-15c., "large stopper for a cask," from Middle Dutch bonge "stopper;" or perhaps from French bonde "bung, bunghole" (15c.), which may be of Germanic origin (or the Germanic words may be borrowed from Romanic), or it may be from Gaulish *bunda (compare Old Irish bonn , Gaelic bonn , Welsh bon "base, sole of the foot"). It is possible that either or both of these sources is
• bunfight 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random notice notice: [15] One of the main Latin verbs for ‘know’ was nōscere (earlier gnōscere ), a distant relative of English know and, via the derived cognōscere , source of a wide range of English words, from cognizance to reconnaissance . From its past participle nōtus was formed the noun nōtitia , which denoted ‘knowl
• bundle 英文词源 bundle bundle: [14] Etymologically, bundle is ‘that which binds or is bound’. Like band , bend , bind , and bond , it can be traced back ultimately to an Indo-European base * bhendh - ‘tie’. The Germanic base * bund -, derived from this, produced Old English byndelle ‘binding’. There is no direct evidence to link this with the much later bundle , although the similarities
• bunch 英文词源 bunch bunch: [14] Bunch originally meant ‘swelling’ (the first text recorded as containing the word, the Middle English poem Body and Soul 1325, speaks of ragged folk ‘with broad bunches on their back’), but we have no real clues as to its source. Perhaps, like bump , it was ultimately imitative of the sound of hitting something, the sense ‘swelling’ being the result of th
• bun 英文词源 bun bun: [14] The word bun first crops up in 1371, in an Anglo-Latin document relating to different types of bread. Its origins, however, are completely shrouded in mystery. Equally obscure, but presumably unrelated, is another word bun , which in the 16th century meant ‘squirrel’. By the 19th century we find it being used for ‘rabbit’, and it survives in its familiar form bun
• bumpkin 英文词源 bumpkin bumpkin: [16] Originally, bumpkin seems to have been a humorously disparaging epithet for a Dutch person: in the first known record of the word, in Peter Levins’s Dictionary of English and Latin words 1570, it is glossed batavus ( Batavia was the name of an island at the mouth of the Rhine in ancient times, and was henceforth associated with the Netherlands). It was probably
• bump 英文词源 bump bump: [16] The earliest recorded sense of bump is ‘swelling, lump’, but the evidence suggests that the primary meaning is ‘knock’, and that this led on to ‘swelling’ as the result of being hit. It is not clear where the word came from, although it may be of Scandinavian origin; no doubt ultimately it imitates the sound of somebody being hit. The verbal sense ‘swell’
• bummer 英文词源 bummer (n.) "loafer, idle person," 1855, possibly an extension of the British word for "backside" (similar development took place in Scotland by 1540), but more probably from German slang bummler "loafer," agent noun from bummeln "go slowly, waste time." According to Kluge, the German word is from 17c., and the earliest sense of it is "oscillate back and forth;" possibly connected to
• bumfluff 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random vaudeville vaudeville: [18] In 15th-century France there was a fashion for songs from the valley of the Vire, in the Calvados region of Normandy (particularly popular, apparently, were the satirical songs composed by a local fuller, Olivier Basselin). They were known as chansons du Vau de Vire ‘songs of the valley of the Vire’
• bumf 英文词源 bumf bumf: [20] The earliest, literal, but now long discontinued sense of bumf is ‘toilet paper’ (first recorded in 1889), which does much to elucidate its origin: it is short for bum fodder . The element of contempt is carried over into its modern meaning, ‘unwanted or uninteresting printed material’, which dates from around 1930. bumf (n.) "papers, paperwork," 1889, British
• bumble 英文词源 bumble (v.) "to flounder, blunder," 1530s, probably of imitative origin. Related: Bumbled ; bumbler ; bumbling . Bumble "self-important petty official," 1856, from the name of the fussy, pompous, stupid beadle in Dickens' "Oliver Twist." 中文词源 bumble ：笨拙 拟声词，笨手笨脚的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bumble 词源， bumble 含义
• bum 英文词源 bum bum: There are two distinct words bum in English. By far the older, ‘buttocks’, is first recorded in John de Trevisa’s translation of Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon 1387: ‘It seemeth that his bum is out that hath that evil [piles]’. It is not clear where it comes from. The other, ‘tramp, loafer’, and its associated verb ‘spend time aimlessly’ [19], chiefly Amer
• bulwark 英文词源 bulwark bulwark: [15] Bulwark comes from Middle High German bolwerc ‘fortification’, a compound formed from bole ‘plank’ (the same word as English bole ‘tree trunk’) and werc , equivalent to English work . It thus originally meant ‘rampart constructed out of planks or tree trunks’. The word was shared by other Germanic languages, including Swedish bolverk , and French
• bully pulpit 英文词源 bully pulpit (n.) 1904, coined by U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt, in reference to the White House. 中文词源 bully pulpit ：百家讲坛 bully, 大哥，名望人物。pulpit, 讲坛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： bully pulpit 词源， bully pulpit 含义。