dretch

词形变化

dretches 复数 dretches dretches 三单 dretching 现在分词 dretched 过去式 dretched 过去分词

别名

draitch drich

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An idle wench; a slattern.

  2. 2.

    A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler.

    苏格兰 英国 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.

    废旧 及物
  2. 1.

    To delay; linger; tarry.

    不及物 废旧
  3. 2.

    To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 不及物

词源

From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).

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