grinch

FREQ #29770

n. 扫兴的人

发音

其它 /ɡɹɪnt͡ʃ/

词形变化

grinches 复数 grinches grinched grinches 三单 grinching grinching 现在分词 grinched 过去式 grinched 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A grouch or killjoy.

    美国
  2. 2.

    A person who is aggressively intent on ruining the Christmas holidays for others.

    贬义 非正式
v.
  1. 1.

    To act like a grinch; to be a killjoy towards someone.

    美国

相关短语

grinch foot grinch paw grinch toe grinch feet grinch paws grinch toes

词源

Named after the main character in a children's book by Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957). Coined as early as 1953, the term was initially used for a fictitious bird named the "Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed Grinch" in Scrambled Eggs Super!; it became associated with the character in a poem published in the May 1955 issue of Redbook, "The Hoobub and the Grinch". Likely a corruption of grouch.

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