beaver

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbiːvə/    美 /ˈbivɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere. countable
    — Then, for the safeguard of his personage, He did appoint a warlike equipage Of foreign beasts, not in the forest bred, But part by land and part by water fed; For tyranny is with strange aid supported. Then unto him all monstrous beasts resorted Bred of two kinds, as Griffons, Minotaurs, Crocodiles, Dragons, Beavers, and Centaurs: With those himself he strengthened mightily, That fear he need no force of enemy.
  2. Butter.
    — Butter – Beaver.
  3. Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”). alt-of,alternative
    — Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham, Is either slain or wounded dangerously; I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:
  4. The fur of the beaver. countable,uncountable
  5. A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850. countable
    — a broad beaver slouched over his eyes
  6. Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value. Canada,US,countable,uncountable
  7. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. countable,uncountable
  8. A brown colour, like that of a beaver. countable,uncountable
  9. A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board. countable
  10. Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”). alt-of,countable,uncountable
  11. A beard or a bearded person. countable,slang
    — The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.
  12. A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards. historical,slang,uncountable
  13. The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women. Canada,US,countable,slang
    — Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.
  14. A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive. US,countable,offensive,slang,uncountable
    — “10-4, Beaver [CB talk for a female], we’re all going down to Plains tomorrow after Jimmy Carter wins.”
动词 v.
  1. To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
    — Without these attentions the woad will not beaver well, a term descriptive of the fineness of the capillary filaments into which it draws out when broken between the finger and thumb.
  2. To work hard.
    — When A. G. Dickens published his English Reformation in 1964 the archival beavering of a generation of graduate students was given its imprimatur in the claim to understand how the English people felt about religious change—largely, according to Dickens, positively.
  3. To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling. slang
  4. After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
  5. To spot a beard in a game of beaver. slang
    — Beavering of foreign visitors does not count. This is a rule, but it is never carried out.

词形变化

beavers plural beaver error-unknown-tag,plural Beaver alternative beavers present,singular,third-person beavering participle,present beavered participle,past beavered past beavers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
American beaver bank beaver beav beavage beaverboard Beaver City Beaver County Beavercreek Beaver Creek beaver dam beaver deceiver beaver-eater beaver eater beavered beaverette Beaver Falls beaver fever beaver hay beaverish Beaver Kill beaverkin beaver lamb beaverlike beaverling beaverly beaver moon beaver rat beaver shooter beaverskin Beaver State beavertail beaver tail Beaverton beaver trader beaverwood beavery Beverley busy as a beaver busy beaver busy beaver function busy little beaver Canadian beaver eager beaver eat beaver European beaver giant beaver in beaver land-beaver made beaver mountain beaver sea beaver split beaver werebeaver beaver away

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.
词源 2
See bevor.
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