spean

vt. [主苏格兰英语]；使断奶

发音

/spiːn/

词形变化

speans 复数 speans speaned speaning speans 三单 speaning 现在分词 speaned 过去式 speaned 过去分词

别名

spen spane spene speen spaine speane

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A teat or nipple of a cow.

    古体 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    Archaic form of spane.

    古体

    1899, Colville, Vernacular, page 15, Beginning life as a grice, the pig when speaned became a shot.

相关短语

Spean Bridge

词源

From Middle English *spene, *spane, from Old English spane, spanu (“teat”), from Proto-West Germanic *spanu, *spenu, from Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”), from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast; teat”). Cognate with West Frisian spien (“nipple”), Dutch speen (“nipple”), Danish spene (“teat”), Swedish spene (“teat, nipple, dug”), Icelandic speni (“teat”). Alternatively a borrowing from Dutch speen (“nipple, teat”), from the same Proto-Germanic origin as above.

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