scad

n. 竹荚鱼, 许多

发音

其它 /skad/

词形变化

scads 复数 scads

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.

  2. 2.

    A large number or quantity.

    加拿大 美国 非正式

    scads of money

    You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

carangid

下位词 6

horse mackerel saurel cigarfish goggle-eye jack mackerel Spanish mackerel

相关短语

shrimp scad yellowtail scad

词源

Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.

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