fimble

发音

/ˈfɪmbl̩/

词形变化

fimbles 复数 fimbles fimbled fimbles 三单 fimbling fimbling 现在分词 fimbled 过去式 fimbled 过去分词

别名

femble

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The male hemp plant.

v.
  1. 1.

    To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.

    方言 不及物

词源

From Middle Dutch femele, fimele (“cannabis brevior”), from fimelen (“to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle”) (whence Dutch fijmelen, femelen), related to Middle Low German fimmelen, fimmeren (“to grope about”), German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”), West Frisian fimelje (“to pick; fiddle' trifle”), English fimble (“to fumble”). Alternatively, it is sometimes suggested that Middle Dutch femele is from French chanvre) femelle (“female (hemp)”), which was applied to the male hemp plant as it is smaller and was therefore believed to be female; this would parallel the old designation of the larger, female plant as carl-hemp (“man-hemp”).

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