hummel

FREQ #39064

a. 无芒的, 无角的

发音

US /ˈhʌm(ə)l/
其它
UK /ˈhʌm(ə)l/

词形变化

hummels 复数 hummels hummelled hummelling hummels 三单 hummeling 现在分词 hummelling 现在分词 hummeled 过去式 hummeled 过去分词 hummelled 过去式 hummelled 过去分词

别名

hummle humble

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Especially in hummel corn: grain that lacks awns (beards or bristles), or has had its awns removed (barley, oats, etc.).

    定语
  2. 2.

    A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns.

    苏格兰 定语
v.
  1. 1.

    Of an animal: to remove the horns; to poll.

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  2. 2.

    To separate (barley, oats, etc.) from the awns.

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词源

Probably from Middle English hamelen (“to maim, mutilate; to cut short”), from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“hornless; mutilated”). Cognate with Dutch hamel (“wether”), English hamble, Low German hommel, hummel (“an animal lacking horns”), humlich, dialectal hommlich (“lacking horns”), Bavarian humlet (“lacking horns”), German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to maim, mutilate”). OxfordDictionaries.com suggests that the “ear of grain with its awns removed” sense preceded the “animal without antlers or horns” sense.

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