spaniel

FREQ #28505

n. 一种长毛垂耳狗, 马屁精

发音

其它 /ˈspænjəl/

词形变化

spaniels 复数 spaniels spanieled spanieling spanielled spanielling spaniels 三单 spanieling 现在分词 spanielling 现在分词 spanieled 过去式 spanieled 过去分词 spanielled 过去式 spanielled 过去分词

别名

spaynel

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.

  2. 2.

    A cringing, fawning person.

v.
  1. 1.

    To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel.

    不及物

    J. Sedgewick (1840), Timon, but not of Athens, page 200: “Always spanielling at the heels of power, the mitred Dignitaries displayed, from first to last, the most rancorous hostility against her.”

    David S. Bell (2000), Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France, →ISBN, page 30: “Hence Duverger's famous question about de Gaulle's first spanielling Prime Minister makes political ('M. Debré, existe-t-il?'), but not constitutional sense.”

    The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

gun dog

下位词 10

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相关短语

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词源

From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniolus (“Spanish”), from Hispānia (“Spain”).

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