besom

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.
    — As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.
  2. A troublesome woman. Northern-England,Scotland,derogatory
    — "Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"
  3. Any cleansing or purifying agent.
    — "The march of an army through a conquered country supposing it to be a highly civilized one, is a besom of destruction, whose havoc, moral and material, it would take at least a century to recover."
动词 v.
  1. To sweep. archaic,poetic
    — Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Prichard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linolium, retired, and Mr Prichard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant...

词形变化

besoms plural beesom alternative,obsolete besoms present,singular,third-person besoming participle,present besomed participle,past besomed past beesom alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
besomer besom-head besomlike besom pocket witch's besom

词源

词源 1
From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”).
词源 2
From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”).
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