gherkin

n. (腌食用)小黄瓜, 西印度黄瓜 [化] 醋渍小黄瓜

发音

US /ˈɡɝkɪn/
AU
UK /ˈɡɜːkɪn/

词形变化

gherkins 复数 gherkins the gherkin

别名

girkin gerkin

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small cucumber, often pickled whole.

    小黄瓜

  2. 2.

    Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle

    爱尔兰 英国
  3. 3.

    The penis.

    俚语
name
  1. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

pickle cucumber cuke

相关短语

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词源

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.

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