dell

FREQ #13891

n. 小谷, 小溪谷 [医] 小凹, 浅窝

发音

其它 /dɛl/

词形变化

dells 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.

    To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.

  2. 1.

    A young woman; a wench.

    废旧
  3. 2.

    1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11

  4. 3.

    1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

    A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dingle

上位词 2

hollow holler

相关短语

arch dell wapping dell Rio Dell up hill and down dell farmer in the dell Hazel Dell Fairy Dell up hill and down dale 翻山越谷, 拚命地, 彻底地

词源

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.

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