piker

n. 胆小鬼, 缩手缩脚的人, 小气鬼

发音

AU /ˈpaɪkə(ɹ)/

词形变化

pikers 复数 pikers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

    历史 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

  3. 3.

    A stingy person; a cheapskate.

  4. 4.

    An amateur.

  5. 5.

    A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)

    澳大利亚
  6. 6.

    One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语

    Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!

  7. 7.

    One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).

    澳大利亚 新西兰 俚语
  8. 8.

    A male freshman at Cornell University.

    美国 过时
  9. 9.

    A tramp; a vagrant.

词源

From pike + -er. In some senses, it has been linked etymologically to the word pikey as well as to Pike County in eastern Missouri https://web.archive.org/web/20051111194645/http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0300200.html. In the latter instance the term originally denoted poor immigrants to California.

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