bodkin

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
  2. A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
    — As with compulsory Sunday worship, death for blasphemy was for the third offence. A bodkin, a large blunt needle, was thrust through the tongue for the second offence.
  3. A hairpin.
    — A rich, flushed colour—large black eyes—teeth that shone from their brilliant whiteness—a slender shape—and most minute feet, in such little shoes of Cordova leather—a silver chain round her neck, to which hung a medal of the Madonna—a dark-brown boddice and short skirt, relieved by a lacing of scarlet riband—long black hair, bound in one large plait round the head, and fastened by a silver bodkin.
  4. A dagger.
    — When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?
  5. A type of long thin arrowhead.
  6. A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
副词 adv.
  1. Closely wedged between two people. not-comparable
    — to sit bodkin

词形变化

bodkins plural bodikin alternative bodkine alternative botkin alternative boidken alternative bodikin alternative bodkine alternative botkin alternative boidken alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bodkined bodkinwise

词源

词源 1
From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
词源 2
From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
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