basher

名词 n.
/ˈbæʃə/    /ˈbæʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
    — Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.
  2. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.; Before the days of pneumatic rivet guns, the member of a riveting team who hammered the rivet to upset the bucktail to form the field head (see rivet).
  3. One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people. informal
    — a Paki-basher
  4. A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines. UK,slang
    — There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.
  5. A rainproof sheet for sleeping under. slang
    — Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.
  6. A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person. slang
  7. A kind of small floodlight.

词形变化

bashers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English bash
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 basher
From bash + -er.
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