sparkler

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything that sparkles.
    — And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall.
  2. A hand-held firework that emits sparks.
    — The Playboy cover was of a girl in grey slacks and sandals, one hand on hip and the other waving a sparkler for Independence Day.
  3. A gem or ornament that sparkles. slang
    — When the bill came, I got a side-glance at it, and hoped Rose would have to hock her sparklers to pay it.
  4. A vivacious and charismatic person.
    — “As for Marilea, she was a sparkler. She was very effervescent. The family would often come out as a family unit when we were in the barnyard or the horse corral, and Marilea was just fine.”
  5. A sparkling wine. informal
    — Irvine's white, a grape variety named for Hans Irvine, who developed the vineyards at Great Western (now owned by Seppelt), is frequently used in the Australian sparklers.
  6. A tiger beetle.
  7. One who scatters; especially, one who scatters money; an improvident person. dated

词形变化

sparklers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Sparkler

词源

Etymology tree
English sparkle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English sparkler
From sparkle + -er.
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