cudgel

n. 棍棒 vt. 用棍棒打

发音

US /ˈkʌd͡ʒəl/

词形变化

cudgels 复数 cudgels cudgeled cudgeling cudgelled cudgelling cudgels 三单 cudgeling 现在分词 cudgelling 现在分词 cudgeled 过去式 cudgeled 过去分词 cudgelled 过去式 cudgelled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

    The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.

  2. 2.

    Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.

    比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To strike with a cudgel.

    The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.

  2. 2.

    To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

club

下位词 3

bastinado shillalah shillelagh
动词

同义词 1

fustigate

上位词 1

hit

相关短语

cudgel one's brain cudgel one's brains take up the cudgel for takes up the cudgel for taking up the cudgel for took up the cudgel for taken up the cudgel for

词源

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).

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