gadling

发音

/ˈɡæd.lɪŋ/

词形变化

gadlings 复数 gadlings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A companion in arms, fellow, comrade.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    A roving vagabond; one who roams

  3. 3.

    A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach

  4. 4.

    A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

词源

From Middle English gadelyng (“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), gadeling (“vagabond”), from Old English geaduling, gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz (“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad + -ling. Related to Old English ġegada (“comrade, companion”).

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