spraddle

v. 叉开腿站立, 跨越

发音

US /ˈspɹædl̩/
其它
UK /ˈspɹædl̩/

词形变化

spraddles 复数 spraddles spraddled spraddles 三单 spraddling spraddling 现在分词 spraddled 过去式 spraddled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A manner of walking with the legs spread out.

v.
  1. 1.

    To spread apart (the legs).

    及物
  2. 2.

    To spread apart the legs of (someone or something).

    及物
  3. 3.

    To lie, move, or stand with legs spread.

    不及物

词源

Uncertain; possibly from sprad, an obsolete dialectal past participle of spread; or a blend of sprawl + straddle or spread + straddle, or perhaps from Middle English *spraddelen; a frequentative form of Middle English spradden, spraden, sprēden (“to lay flat, spread; to distribute, scatter, sow”), from Old English sprǣdan (“to expand, spread; to outspread, stretch forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, sprinkle, strew”), equivalent to spread + -le. Compare also dialectal Norwegian spradla (“to flail, squirm, thrash about”).

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