colt

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n. 小马, 苔绳, 无经验的年轻人

发音

UK /kəʊlt/
UK /kɔʊlt/
其它
UK /kɒlt/
其它 /kɒlt/
US /koʊlt/

词形变化

colts 复数 colts colted colting colts 三单 colting 现在分词 colted 过去式 colted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A young male horse.

    驹

    驹子

    小雄马

  2. 2.

    A young crane (bird).

  3. 3.

    A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

    A professional cricketer during his first season.

    比喻 俚语 体育 游戏
  4. 4.

    A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

    A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.

    比喻 废旧 俚语
  5. 5.

    A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

    历史 航海 交通
  6. 6.

    A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.

    废旧 俚语
  7. 7.

    A young camel or donkey.

    宗教
  8. 8.

    A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

    比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To horse; to get with young.

    废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To befool.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.

    废旧 俚语 及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

male revolver foal six-gun sixshooter

下位词 4

ridgel ridgeling ridgil ridgling

相关短语

colt evil woods colt summer colt old-field colt catch colt hog colt

词源

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.

来源：wiktionary