scarper

vi. 逃跑, 跑掉

发音

UK /ˈskɑːpə/
US /ˈskɑɹpəɹ/
AU

词形变化

scarpers 复数 scarpers scarpered scarpering scarpers 三单 scarpering 现在分词 scarpered 过去式 scarpered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Chiefly in do a scarper: an act of departing quickly or running away; an escape, a flight.

    英国 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    Chiefly in scarper the letty: to depart quickly or run away from (a place); to flee.

    英国 过时 俚语 及物
  2. 2.

    To depart quickly; to escape, to flee, to run away.

    英国 不及物 俚语

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

run escape lam bunk scat run away break away fly the coop head for the hills hightail it

上位词 3

leave go away go forth

下位词 4

fly flee skedaddle take flight

相关短语

scarper the letty

词源

The verb is probably borrowed from Italian scappare (“to run away, escape, flee”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + cappa (“(Late Latin) cape, cloak (usually with a hood); (Medieval Latin) cap; headwear”) (further etymology uncertain, probably ultimately from caput (“head”), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”)) + -āre (the present active infinitive of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Around World War I (1914–1918), the English word was influenced by the Cockney rhyming slang term Scapa Flow (“to go”). Doublet of escape and scape. The noun is derived from the verb.

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