英语词源

• winkle 英文词源 winkle (n.) edible mollusk, 1580s, shortening of periwinkle (n.2). 中文词源 winkle ：蛾螺 缩写自periwinkle,来自peri,在周围，-winkle,弯，转，缠绕，词源同vine,vetch。用于指蛾螺。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： winkle 词源， winkle 含义。 winkle ：蛾螺 缩写自 periwinkle,来自 peri-,在周围，-winkle,弯，转，缠绕，
• wink 英文词源 wink (v.) Old English wincian "to blink, wink, close one's eyes quickly," from Proto-Germanic *wink- (cognates: Dutch winken , Old High German winkan "move sideways, stagger; nod," German winken "to wave, wink"), a gradational variant of the root of Old High German wankon "to stagger, totter," Old Norse vakka "to stray, hover," from PIE root *weng- "to bend, curve." The meaning "close
• wingspan 英文词源 wingspan (n.) also wing-span , 1894, from wing (n.) + span (n.1). 中文词源 wingspan ：翼展 wing,翼,span,展开。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wingspan 词源， wingspan 含义。 wingspan ：翼展 wing,翼,span,展开。
• winger 英文词源 swinger (n.) 1540s, "one who or that which swings," agent noun from swing (v.). Also (now obsolete) "anything big or great" (1580s). Meaning "person who is sexually promiscuous" is from 1964. Old English swingere (n.) meant "one who strikes, scourger." 中文词源 winger ：边锋队员 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： winger 词源， winger 含义
• wingding 英文词源 wingding (n.) 1927, originally hobo slang, "counterfeit seizures induced to attract sympathy;" meaning "energetic celebration" first recorded 1949. 中文词源 wingding ：聚会 俚语词，可能来自拟声词，觥筹交错的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wingding 词源， wingding 含义。
• wing 英文词源 wing wing: [12] Wing was borrowed from Old Norse vængir , source also of Swedish and Danish vinge and Norwegian veng . This came ultimately from the Indo-European base * we - ‘blow’, and the missing semantic link with ‘wing’ may be ‘flutter’. wing (n.) late 12c., wenge , from Old Norse vængr "wing of a bird, aisle, etc." (cognates: Danish and Swedish vinge "wing"), of un
• winery 英文词源 winery (n.) 1867, American English, from wine (n.) + -ery . 中文词源 winery ：葡萄酒厂 wine,葡萄酒，-ery,地点后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： winery 词源， winery 含义。 winery ：葡萄酒厂 wine,葡萄酒，-ery,地点后缀。
• wine 英文词源 wine wine: [OE] Wine comes from Latin vīnum . This was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic as * wīnam , which subsequently evolved into German wein , Dutch wijn , Swedish and Danish vin , and English wine . It also gave French vin and Italian and Spanish vino , and was extensively acquired by other Indo-European languages, including Russian and Serbo-Croat vino , Polish wino , Lithua
• wind-up 英文词源 wind-up (n.) 1570s, "conclusion or final adjustment and settlement of some matter," from verbal phrase wind up (see wind (v.1)). Baseball pitching sense attested from 1906. 中文词源 wind-up ：装有发条的，收场的 wind,缠绕，发条，up,向上。引申义装有发条的，收场的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wind-up 词源， wind-up 含义。
• windpipe 英文词源 windpipe (n.) "trachea," 1520s, from wind (n.1) in the "breath" sense + pipe (n.1). 中文词源 windpipe ：气管 wind,风，pipe,管。用于解剖学术语气管。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： windpipe 词源， windpipe 含义。 windpipe ：气管 wind,风，pipe,管。用于解剖学术语气管。
• windowsill 英文词源 windowsill (n.) also window-sill , 1703, from window (n.) + sill (n.). 中文词源 windowsill ：窗台 window,窗户，sill,窗台，门槛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： windowsill 词源， windowsill 含义。 windowsill ：窗台 window,窗户，sill,窗台，门槛。
• windowpane 英文词源 lozenge (n.) figure having four equal sides and two acute and two obtuse angles, early 14c., from Old French losenge "windowpane, small square cake," etc., used for many flat quadrilateral things (Modern French losange ). It has cognates in Spanish losanje , Catalan llosange , Italian lozanga . Probably from a pre-Roman Celtic language, perhaps Iberian *lausa or Gaulish *lausa "flat s
• windmill 英文词源 windmill (n.) c. 1300, from wind (n.1) + mill (n.). Similar formation in German Windmühle , Dutch windmolen , French moulin à vent . Verb meaning "to swing the arms wildly" is recorded from 1888. Related: Windmilled ; windmilling . 中文词源 windmill ：风车磨坊 wind,风，mill,磨坊。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： windmill 词源， windmill 含义。
• windlass 英文词源 windlass (n.) device for raising weights by winding a rope round a cylinder, c. 1400, alteration of wyndase (late 13c.), from Anglo-French windas , and directly from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse vindass , from vinda "to wind" (see wind (v.1)) + ass "pole, beam" (cognate with Gothic ans "beam, pillar"). 中文词源 windlass ：辘轳 来自古诺斯语vindass,辘轳，vinsa
• winding 英文词源 meander meander: [16] The word meander comes from the name of an actual river, the Maeander (now known as the Büyük Menderes), which flows through Turkey into the Aegean sea. It was famous in ancient times for its winding course, and so Greek maíandros came to be used as a generic term for ‘winding course’. The word passed into English via Latin maeander , and was turned into a
• Windies 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random muscle muscle: [16] Ultimately, muscle and mussel [OE] are the same word, and both owe their origin to a supposed resemblance to a mouse. They go back to Latin mūsculus , literally ‘little mouse’, a diminutive form of mūs ‘mouse’, which was applied to the shellfish because of a similarity in shape and colour, and to ‘
• winder 英文词源 sidewinder (n.) small horned rattlesnake of southwestern U.S., 1875, American English, from side (adj.) + agent noun of wind (v.), so called in reference to its "peculiar lateral progressive motion." Also sidewiper (1888). stem-winder (n.) "excellent thing" (especially a rousing speech), 1892, from stem-winding watches (1875), which were advanced and desirable when introduced. See ste
• wind-down 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random hunger hunger: [OE] Hunger is a widespread word in the Germanic languages, shared by German, Swedish, and Danish as well as English (Dutch spells it honger ), but it is not represented in any of the other Indo-European languages. Indeed, no related forms have been identified for certain, although Greek kégkein ‘be hungry’ a
• windcheater 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random mastiff mastiff: [14] Despite its rather fierce reputation, a mastiff may etymologically be a ‘tamed’ dog, a dog ‘accustomed to the hand’. The word seems to have come into the language as an alteration of Old French mastin , which was a descendant of the Vulgar Latin * mānsuētīnus ‘tame’. This in turn went back to
• windbreak 英文词源 windbreak (n.) also wind-break , "row of trees, etc., to break the force of the wind," 1861, American English, from wind (n.1) + break (n.). 中文词源 windbreak ：防风林，风挡 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： windbreak 词源， windbreak 含义。
• windbag 英文词源 windbag (n.) late 15c., "bellows for an organ," from wind (n.1) + bag (n.). Figurative sense of "person who talks too much" is attested from 1827. 中文词源 windbag ：夸夸其谈的人 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： windbag 词源， windbag 含义。
• wind 英文词源 wind wind: English has three distinct words wind . The noun, ‘moving air’ [OE], came from a prehistoric Germanic * windaz , which also produced German and Dutch wind and Swedish and Danish vind . This in turn went back to Indo- European * went -, whose other descendants include Latin ventus (source of English vent , ventilate , etc) and Welsh gwynt . And * went itself was derived
• winch 英文词源 winch (v.) "to hoist with a winch," 1520s, from winch (n.). Related: Winched ; winching . winch (n.) late 13c., from Old English wince "winch, pulley," from Proto-Germanic *winkja- , from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)). Perhaps so called in reference to the bent handle. 中文词源 winch ：卷扬机 来自PIE*weng,弯，转，来自PIE*wei的扩大形式，词源同wind
• wince 英文词源 wince (v.) c. 1300, wincen ; mid-13c. winchen , "to recoil suddenly," from Anglo-French *wenchir , Old North French *wenchier (Old French guenchir ) "to turn aside, avoid," from Frankish *wenkjan , from Proto-Germanic *wankjan (cognates: Old High German wankon "to stagger, totter," Old Norse vakka "to stray, hover;" see wink (v.)). Originally of horses. Modern form is attested from la
• win 英文词源 win win: [OE] Win probably goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base * van - ‘overcome, conquer’, which also produced Sanskrit van - ‘gain, acquire’. Its Germanic relatives include German gewinnen ‘gain’ and Swedish vinna ‘win’. win (v.) "be victorious," c. 1300 fusion of Old English winnan "to labor, toil, struggle for, work at, strive, fight," and gewinnan "to g
• wimple 英文词源 wimple (n.) "head and neck covering for women," formerly worn out of doors and especially by nuns, Old English wimpel , from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (cognates: Old Saxon wimpal , Old Frisian wimpel , Middle Dutch, Dutch wimpel , Old High German wimpal , German wimpel , Old Norse vimpill ), of obscure origin. Old French guimple (French guimpe ) is from Germanic. 中文词源 wimple ：修
• wimp 英文词源 wimp wimp: [20] The first record of the word wimp ‘feeble ineffectual person’ is from as long ago as 1920, but it was not used at all widely until the early 1960s. Its origins have never been satisfactorily explained. It is tempting to link it with J. Wellington Wimpy, a curious little man with a moustache who featured in the Popeye cartoons, but he was not around in the 1920s. No
• wily 英文词源 wily (adj.) "subtle, cunning, crafty," early 14c., from wile (n.) + -ly (1). Related: Wiliness . In 16c. English had wily-pie "cunning fellow." 中文词源 wily ：狡猾的 来自wile,奸计，欺骗。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wily 词源， wily 含义。 wily ：狡猾的 来自 wile,奸计，欺骗。
• wilted 英文词源 wilt (v.) 1690s, "to fade, droop, wither," probably an alteration of welk "to wilt," probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German welken "to wither," cognate with Old High German irwelhen "become soft," from Proto-Germanic *welk- , from PIE root *welg- "wet" (see welkin ). Transitive sense of "cause to fade or droop" is from 1809. Related: Wilted ; wilting . 中文词源 wilted ：（
• willy-nilly 英文词源 willy-nilly willy-nilly: [17] Willy-nilly originated in the expression will I , nill I , literally ‘whether I wish it or do not wish it’ ( nill ‘be unwilling’, long defunct as an independent verb, was formed from will and the negative prefix ne -) willy-nilly c. 1600, contraction of will I, nill I , or will he, nill he , or will ye, nill ye, literally "with or without the will
• willy 英文词源 willy (1) "A penis", Early 20th century: pet form of the given name William . willy (2) "A sudden outburst of anger or annoyance", 1930s: perhaps from willy-willy. 中文词源 willy ：小鸡鸡 来自人名William的昵称，用于俚语。比较dick,doll,wally. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： willy 词源， willy 含义。 willy ：小鸡鸡 来自人名 Wil
• willow 英文词源 willow (n.) Old English welig "willow," from Proto-Germanic *wel- (cognates: Old Saxon wilgia , Middle Dutch wilghe , Dutch wilg ), probably from PIE *wel- (3) "to turn, roll," with derivatives referring to curved, enclosing objects, cognate with Greek helix (see volvox ). The change in form to -ow (14c.) paralleled that of bellow and fellow . The more typical Germanic word for the tr
• will-o 英文词源 will-o-the-wisp (n.) 1660s, earlier Will with the wisp (c. 1600), from the masc. proper name Will + wisp "bundle of hay or straw used as a torch." Compare Jack o'lantern . 中文词源 will-o ：’-the-wisp 磷火，鬼火，镜花水月之物 Will,人名，William昵称，wisp,火把，比喻用法。代指过去人们无法理解的鬼火，磷火，后比喻虚无之物，镜花水月
• willing 英文词源 willing (adj.) early 14c., present participle adjective from will (v.1). Old English had -willendliche in compounds. Related: Willingly ; willingness . 中文词源 willing ：愿意，乐意 来自will,意愿。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： willing 词源， willing 含义。 willing ：乐意的，情愿的 词根词缀： will(-vol-)自愿,意愿 + -ing
• willies 英文词源 willies (n.) "spell of nervousness," 1896, perhaps from the woollies , a dialectal term for "nervous uneasiness," probably in reference to the itchiness of wool garments. 中文词源 willies ：心里发毛 可能来自英语方言woollies,羊毛，羊毛制衣，引申义发痒，紧张不安，词源同wool. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： willies 词源， w
• willful 英文词源 willful (adj.) also wilful , c. 1200, "strong-willed," usually in a bad sense, "obstinate, unreasonable," from will (n.) + -ful . From late 14c. as "eager" (to do something). Mid-14c., of actions, "done on purpose, intentional, due to one's own will." Related: Willfullness . 中文词源 willful ：有意的，成心的 来自will,意愿。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• will 英文词源 will will: Will the noun [OE] and the two verbs will [OE] all go back ultimately to the Indo- European base * wel -, * wol - ‘be pleasing’, which also produced English voluntary , voluptuous , wealth , well ‘satisfactorily’, etc. From it was derived a noun, * weljon , which evolved into English will , and also German wille , Dutch wil , Swedish vilja , and Danish vilje . The v
• wile 英文词源 wile (n.) late Old English, wil "stratagem, trick, sly artifice," perhaps from Old North French *wile (Old French guile ), or directly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse vel "trick, craft, fraud," vela "defraud"). Perhaps ultimately related to Old English wicca "wizard" (see Wicca ). Lighter sense of "amorous or playful trick" is from c. 1600. wile (v.) late 14c., "to decei
• wilderness 英文词源 wilderness (n.) c. 1200, "wild, uninhabited, or uncultivated place," with -ness + Old English wild-deor "wild animal, wild deer;" see wild (adj.) + deer (n.). Similar formation in Dutch wildernis , German Wildernis , though the usual form there is Wildnis . 中文词源 wilderness ：荒野 来自wild,荒野的，狂野的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wild
• wild goose chase 英文词源 wild goose chase (n.) 1592, first attested in "Romeo and Juliet," where it evidently is a figurative use of an earlier (but unrecorded) literal sense in reference to a kind of follow-the-leader steeplechase. Wild goose (as opposed to a domesticated one) is attested in late Old English ( wilde gos ). 中文词源 wild goose chase ：徒劳的寻找，白费力气的追逐 比喻用法，
• wild card 英文词源 wild card (n.) 1950 in figurative sense, from literal use in certain forms of poker (1941), from wild (adj.) + card (n.). The phrase was used occasionally c. 1900 in British and Irish writing to mean "drinking, free-spirited man." 中文词源 wild card ：百搭牌，变牌 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wild card 词源， wild card 含义。
• wildebeest 英文词源 wildebeest (n.) 1838, from South African Dutch (in modern Afrikaans wildebees , plural wildebeeste ), literally "wild beast," from Dutch wild "wild" (see wild (adj.)) + beest "beast, ox" (in South African Dutch "steer, cattle"), from Middle Dutch beeste , from Old French beste "beast" (see beast ). 中文词源 wildebeest ：牛羚，角马 来自南非荷兰语，即wild beast。用于
• wild 英文词源 wild wild: [OE] Wild is a general Germanic word, shared by German and Dutch ( wild ) and Swedish and Danish ( vild ). All go back to a prehistoric ancestor * wilthijaz , which in turn was probably descended from Indo-European * ghwelt - (source of Welsh gwyllt ‘wild’). The derivative wilderness [OE] etymologically denotes the ‘condition of being a wild animal’. It originated a
• wilco 英文词源 wilco 1945, in two-way radio slang, abbreviation and conflation of will comply . 中文词源 wilco ：（无线电用语）照办，遵办 缩写自短语will comply. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wilco 词源， wilco 含义。
• wiki 英文词源 wiki (n.) web page that can be edited by browsers, by 2002, abstracted from names of such sites (such as Wikipedia , launched January 2001), the original being WikiWikiWeb , introduced and named by Ward Cunningham in 1995, from Hawaiian wikiwiki "fast, swift." 中文词源 wiki ：维基，维基百科 缩写自Wikipedia,最早的形式为WikiWikiWeb,来自其创造人Ward Cunningham在
• wigwam 英文词源 wigwam (n.) 1620s, from Algonquian (probably Eastern Abenaki) wikewam "a dwelling," said to mean literally "their house;" also said to be found in such formations as wikiwam and Ojibwa wiigiwaam and Delaware wiquoam . 中文词源 wigwam ：（旧时印第安人住的）棚屋 来自北美印第安土著语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wigwam 词源， wig
• wight 英文词源 wight (n.) Old English wiht "living being, creature, person; something, anything," from Proto-Germanic *wihti- (cognates: Old Saxon wiht "thing, demon," Dutch wicht "a little child," Old High German wiht "thing, creature, demon," German Wicht "creature, little child," Old Norse vettr "thing, creature," Swedish vätte "spirit of the earth, gnome," Gothic waihts "something"), from PIE *
• wiggly 英文词源 wiggly (adj.) 1878, from wiggle (n.) + -y (2). 中文词源 wiggly ：弯弯曲曲的 来自wiggle,摆动，扭动，引申词义弯弯曲曲的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wiggly 词源， wiggly 含义。 wiggly ：弯弯曲曲的 来自 wiggle,摆动，扭动，引申词义弯弯曲曲的。
• wiggle 英文词源 wiggle wiggle: see earwig wiggle (v.) early 13c., perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Flemish wigelen , frequentative of wiegen "to rock," from wiege "cradle," from Proto-Germanic *wig- (cognates: Old High German wiga , German Wiege "cradle," Old Frisian widze ), from PIE root *wegh- "to move" (see weigh ). Related: Wiggled ; wiggling . The noun is attested from 1816. 中文词源 wig
• wigeon 英文词源 wigeon "A dabbling duck with mainly reddish-brown and grey plumage, the male having a whistling call", Early 16th century: perhaps of imitative origin and suggested by pigeon 1 . 中文词源 wigeon ：赤颈鸭 拟声词，拼写受pigeon影响。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wigeon 词源， wigeon 含义。
• wig 英文词源 wig wig: [17] Wig is short for periwig [16], which in turn is an alteration of perwike , a now defunct variant of peruke [16]; and peruke came via French perruque from Italian perrucca , a word of unknown origin. Wigging ‘scolding’, first recorded at the beginning of the 19th century, may have been inspired by the notion of being told off by a bigwig [18], etymologically a ‘high
• wiener 英文词源 wiener (n.) 1900, shortening of wienerwurst (1874, American English), from German Wiener "of Vienna" (from Wien "Vienna," from Latin Vindo-bona ; see Vienna ) + Wurst "sausage" (see wurst ). Colloquial wienie is attested by 1911. Extensive pejorative senses developed from its penis-like shape. Wiener roast is from 1910. 中文词源 wiener ：小鸡鸡 缩写自wienerwurst,维也纳香肠
• wield 英文词源 wield wield: [OE] To wield something is etymologically to ‘command’ or ‘rule’ it. Indeed, that is what the word originally meant in English. ‘Handle, use’ is a secondary development. It goes back to a prehistoric base * wald -, which also produced German walten , Lithuanian valdyti , Czech vládnouti , and Polish władać ‘rule, govern’ and Russian vladet’ ‘possess
• widthways 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random sham sham: see shame 中文词源 widthways ：横向地 width，宽，way,路，方向，-s,副词后缀，朝向。引申词义横向的。比较lengthways. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： widthways 词源， widthways 含义。 widthways ：横向地 width,宽度，way,路，方向，-s,副词后缀，朝
• width 英文词源 width width: see wide width (n.) 1620s, formed from wide on model of breadth , and replacing wideness (Old English widnes ). Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word." Related: Widthwise . 中文词源 width ：宽度 来自wide，宽的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： width 词源， width 含义。 width ：宽度；广阔，宽阔 词根词缀：wide宽阔的 +
• widower 英文词源 widower (n.) "man who has lost his wife by death," late 14c., extended from widow (n.). The Old English masc. form was widewa . Similar formation in Middle Dutch weduwer , German Wittwer . Related: Widowerhood . 中文词源 widower ：鳏夫 词源同widow,寡妇。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： widower 词源， widower 含义。 widower ：鳏夫  来源于拉
• widow 英文词源 widow widow: [OE] A widow is etymologically a woman who has been ‘separated’, left ‘solitary’. The word goes back ultimately to Indo- European * widhewo , an adjective formed from the base * weidh - ‘separate’ (source also of English divide and Sanskrit vidhu - ‘solitary’). This produced a large number of words for ‘widow’ in the Indo-European languages, including
• widget 英文词源 widget (n.) "gadget, small manufactured item," c. 1920, American English, probably an alteration of gadget , perhaps based on which it. 中文词源 widget ：小器物 来自gadget拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： widget 词源， widget 含义。 widget ：小器物 来自 gadget 拼写变体。
• wide 英文词源 wide wide: [OE] Wide is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German weit , Dutch wijd , and Swedish and Danish vid . All are descended from prehistoric Germanic * wīdaz , which may go back ultimately to the Indo-European base * wi - ‘apart, away’ (source also of Sanskrit vitarám ‘further’). Width was coined in the early 17th century, probably on the analogy of breadth
• wicketkeeper 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random drove drove: see drive 中文词源 wicketkeeper ：三柱门守门员 wicket,三柱门，keeper,守门员。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wicketkeeper 词源， wicketkeeper 含义。 wicketkeeper ：三柱门守门员 wicket,三柱门，keeper,守门员。
• wicket 英文词源 wicket wicket: [13] A wicket was originally a ‘small gate’, and etymologically the word appears to denote something that ‘turns’ – presumably on a hinge in opening and closing. It was borrowed from Old Northern French wiket , which in turn came from a Germanic source represented also by modern Swedish vika ‘fold, turn’. The set of stumps originally used for cricket resem
• wicker 英文词源 wicker (n.) mid-14c., "wickerwork," from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish viger , Middle Swedish viker "willow, willow branch"), from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vikja "to move, turn," Swedish vika "to bend," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, twine" (see weak ). The notion is of pliant twigs. As an adjective, "made of wicker
• wicked 英文词源 wicked wicked: [13] Wicked and witch are closely related. Wicked is an extension, using the suffix - ed , of the now obsolete adjective wick ‘wicked’. And this in turn originated as an adjectival use of Old English wicca ‘wizard’, whose feminine form is the ancestor of modern English witch . = witch wicked (adj.) c. 1200, extended form of earlier wick "bad, wicked, false" (12c
• wick 英文词源 wick wick: [OE] Wick ‘burning fibre in a candle or lamp’ has West Germanic relatives in German wieche and Dutch wiek , but its ultimate ancestry is uncertain (a connection has been suggested with Old Irish figim ‘I weave’). The wick of get on someone’s wick ‘annoy someone’, incidentally (first recorded in 1945), is probably a different word. It appears to be short for Ha
• Wicca 英文词源 Wicca (n.) An Old English masc. noun meaning "male witch, wizard, soothsayer, sorcerer, astrologer, magician;" see witch . Use of the word in modern contexts traces to English folklorist Gerald Gardner (1884-1964), who is said to have joined circa 1939 an occult group in New Forest, Hampshire, England, for which he claimed an unbroken tradition to medieval times. Gardner seems to have
• why 英文词源 why why: [OE] Why goes back to Indo-European * qwei , the locative case of the interrogative base * qwo - (source of English what and who ). This passed into prehistoric Germanic as * khwī , which has since died out in all the Germanic languages apart from Danish ( hvi ) and English ( why ). why (adv.) Old English hwi , instrumental case (indicating for what purpose or by what means)
• whup 英文词源 whup "Beat; thrash", Late 19th century: variant of whip. 中文词源 whup ：轻易打败 来自whip拼写变体，引申义鞭打，打败。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whup 词源， whup 含义。 whup ：轻易打败 来自 whip 拼写变体，引申词义鞭打，打败。
• whose 英文词源 whose (pron.) genitive of who ; from Old English hwæs , genitive of hwa (see who ). 中文词源 whose ：谁的 来自who的属格。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whose 词源， whose 含义。 whose ：谁的 来自 who 的属格。
• whorl 英文词源 whorl (n.) mid-15c., "the small flywheel of a spindle," perhaps an alteration of whirl . Meaning "circlar arrangement of leaves or flowers round a stem of a plant" is first recorded 1550s. Of seashells or other spiral structures, from 1828. Related: Whorled . 中文词源 whorl ：螺纹 来自whirl拼写变体，旋转，引申义螺纹。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• whore 英文词源 whore whore: [OE] A whore is etymologically a ‘lover’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base * qār -, which also produced Latin cārus ‘dear’ (source of English caress and charity ), Old Irish caraim ‘I love’, and Latvian kārs ‘randy, greedy’. It gave prehistoric Germanic * khōrōn , which evolved into German hure , Dutch hoer , Swedish hora , Dan
• whooping 英文词源 pertussis (n.) "whooping cough," 1670s (Sydenham), from Modern Latin pertussis , from per- "thoroughly" + tussis "cough," of unknown origin. whoop (v.) mid-14c., houpen , partly imitative, partly from Old French huper , houper "to cry out, shout," also imitative. It is attested as an interjection from at least mid-15c. Spelling with wh- is from mid-15c. The noun is recorded from c. 16
• whopper 英文词源 whopper (n.) 1767, "uncommonly large thing," originally and especially an audacious lie, formed as if from whop (v.) "to beat, overcome." Whopping "large, big, impressive" is attested by 1620s. 中文词源 whopper ：特大的东西 拟声词，比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whopper 词源， whopper 含义。
• whoosh 英文词源 whoosh (v.) 1856, of imitative origin. Related: Whooshed ; whooshing . As a noun from 1880; as an interjection by 1899. 中文词源 whoosh ：哗哗 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whoosh 词源， whoosh 含义。
• whoopee cushion 英文词源 whoopee (n.) 1845, "noisy, unrestrained revelry," extended form of whoop , originally American English. Popular song "Makin' Whoopee is from 1928. The novelty whoopee cushion is from 1931. 中文词源 whoopee cushion ：放屁坐垫（坐上去发出放屁声，开玩笑用） 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whoopee cushion 词源， whoopee cus
• whoop 英文词源 whoop (v.) mid-14c., houpen , partly imitative, partly from Old French huper , houper "to cry out, shout," also imitative. It is attested as an interjection from at least mid-15c. Spelling with wh- is from mid-15c. The noun is recorded from c. 1600. Phrase whoop it up "create a disturbance" is recorded from 1881. Expression whoop-de-do is recorded from 1929. Whooping cough (1739) is n
• whom 英文词源 whom (pron.) objective case of who , Old English hwam (Proto-Germanic *hwam ), dative form of hwa (see who ). Ungrammatical use of who form whom is attested from c. 1300. 中文词源 whom ：谁 来自who的宾格形式，比较am,him. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whom 词源， whom 含义。 whom ：谁 来自 who 的宾格形式，比较 am,him.
• whole step 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random phone phone: [20] Phone is of course short for telephone [19], a compound word formed from Greek tēle - ‘far off’ and phōné ‘voice, sound’ (a descendant of the Indo-European base * bha - ‘speak’, and related to English fable , fame , fate , etc). Other English words derived from or based on phōné include gramoph
• wholesome 英文词源 wholesome (adj.) c. 1200, "of benefit to the soul," from whole (adj.) in the "healthy" sense + -some (1). Physical sense first attested late 14c. Related: Wholesomely ; wholesomeness . Old English had halwende . 中文词源 wholesome ：健康的 来自whole的古义，健康的，词源同healthy,-some,形容词后缀。参见whole. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• wholesale 英文词源 wholesale (adj.) early 15c., "in large quantities," from whole (adj.) + sale ; the general sense of "extensive" is attested from 1640s. As a verb from 1800. Related: Wholesaling ; wholesaler . 中文词源 wholesale ：批发的 即整体出售。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： wholesale 词源， wholesale 含义。 wholesale ：批发 词根词缀： whole整个
• whole 英文词源 whole whole: [OE] Whole is at the centre of a tightlyknit family of English words descended from prehistoric Germanic * khailaz ‘undamaged’ (the other members – hail ‘salute’, hale , hallow , heal , health , and holy – have have branched off in different semantic directions, but whole has stayed fairly close to its source). The Germanic form, which also produced German hei
• whoa 英文词源 whoa (interj.) 1620s, a cry to call attention from a distance, a variant of who . As a command to stop a horse, it is attested from 1843, a variant of ho . As an expression of delight or surprise (1980s) it has gradually superseded wow , which was very popular 1960s. 中文词源 whoa ：（赶马等）吁 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whoa 词源，
• who 英文词源 who who: [OE] Who goes right back to Indo-European * qwos , * qwes (source also of Russian kto ‘who’), whose neuter form * qwod gave English what . Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was * khwaz , * khwez , which has evolved into German wer , Dutch wie , Danish hvo , and English who . Whom comes from the Old English dative form hwǣm . who (pron.) Old English hwa "who," sometimes
• whizzy 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random alms alms: [OE] The word alms has become much reduced in its passage through time from its ultimate Greek source, eleēmosúnē ‘pity, alms’. This was borrowed into post-classical (Christian) Latin as eleēmosyna , which subsequently became simplified in Vulgar Latin to * alimosina (source of the word for ‘alms’ in many
• whizz 英文词源 whizz (v.) "make or move with a humming, hissing sound," 1540s, of imitative origin. Meaning "to urinate" is from 1929. Related: Whizzed ; whizzing . The noun is recorded from 1610s. Whizzer "something extraordinary" is from 1888. 中文词源 whizz ：嗖嗖地移动 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whizz 词源， whizz 含义。
• whittle 英文词源 whittle (v.) 1550s, "to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife," from Middle English whittel "a knife," especially a large one (c. 1400), variant of thwittle (late 14c.), from Old English þwitan "to cut," from Proto-Germanic *thwit- (cognates: Old Norse þveita "to hew"), from PIE root *twei- "to agitate, shake, toss." Figurative sense is attested from 1746. Related: Whittle
• Whitsuntide 英文词源 hour hour: [13] Greek hórā (a distant relative of English year ) was originally a rather vague term, denoting ‘period of time, season’. In due course it came to be applied more specifically to ‘one twelfth of a day (from sunrise to sunset)’, but as this varied in length according to the time of the year, hórā was still far from being a precise unit of time. Not until the M
• Whitsunday 英文词源 Whitsunday "Pentecost," late Old English Hwita Sunnandæg "white Sunday" (see white (adj.)); possibly so called from the white baptismal robes worn by newly baptized Christians on this day. Related: Whitsuntide . 中文词源 Whitsunday ：圣灵降临节 即白色星期天，因人们在这一天穿白袍而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Whitsunday 词
• whiting 英文词源 whiting "A slender-bodied marine fish of the cod family, which lives in shallow European waters and is a commercially important food fish", Middle English: from Middle Dutch wijting , from wijt 'white'. 中文词源 whiting ：牙鳕 即一种白色的小鱼。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whiting 词源， whiting 含义。
• whither 英文词源 whither (adv., conj.) Old English hwider , from Proto-Germanic *hwithre- , from *hwi- "who" (see who ) + ending as in hither and thither . Compare Gothic hvadre . 中文词源 whither ：哪里，何处 whi-, 谁，哪里，词源同who,where,-ther,向，从，来自hither,thither. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： whither 词源， whither 含义。 whither ：哪里
• whitey 英文词源 whitey (n.) "'white' person, person of European descent," 1828, also whity , from white (adj.) + -y (2) and -y (3). Earlier as an adjective, and Whitey-brown was a 19c. descriptive color name, used to describe, among other things, mulatto skin. Negro troops doing provost duty in Norfolk; keeping the white people in order. On a visit to Norfolk one can see white Southerners, arrested f