spow

发音

/spaʊ/

词形变化

spows 三单 spowing 现在分词 spowed 过去式 spowed 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    An imaginary action resembling the headcarrying of a teapot, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the past participle form in English-speaking children.

    语言学

    this is a man who knows how to spow

词源

Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before. Probably influenced by spout

来源：wiktionary