maddock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An earthworm or maggot. obsolete

词形变化

maddocks plural

词源

From Middle English maddok, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish maddike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maþô (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa), equivalent to made (“maggot”) + -ock.
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