單詞
piker
['pa?k?]
基本信息
- n. （美俚）膽小鬼；縮手縮腳的人；謹慎的賭徒
中文詞源
piker 流浪漢，可憐鬼
俚語，來自pike,公路收費站。用于指過去流浪到加利福利亞州的窮人。
英文詞源
- piker (n.)
- "miserly person," 1872, formerly "poor migrant to California" (1860), earlier pike (1854), perhaps originally "vagrant who wanders the pike (n.1)" (which is the notion in Sussex dialectal piker "vagrant, tramp, gypsy," 1838), but Barnhart, OED and others suggest the American English word ultimately is a reference to people from Pike County, Missouri.
雙語例句
- 1. Because of his anti - urban feelings Kenworthy Piker is known as the leading ruralist of his time.
- 因為他的 反 城市情緒,肯渥希.皮克在他的時代以引導田園著稱.
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