wug

发音

/wʌɡ/

词形变化

wugs 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.

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  2. 1.

    In folk taxonomy, a creature with worm or insect features; colloquially, a bug or creepy-crawly.

相关短语

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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.

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