grimalkin

英 [grɪ'mælkɪn; -'mɔːl-] 美
  • n. 猫(特指老母猫);恶毒的老妇,老刁妇

英文词源


grimalkin (n.)
name given to a cat, 1620s, as in, or from, Shakespeare's Gray-Malkin, in "Macbeth" (1605), hence any cat, especially an old she-cat; from gray (adj.) + Malkin, diminutive of fem. proper name Matilda or Maud.

双语例句


1. On one of these I stretched myself,and Grimalkin mounted the other.
我躺在一条凳子上,老母猫跳上了另一条。

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