bombase英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Cotton wool made from raw cotton, typically used as padding in clothing or as a stopper. historical,uncountable,usually

— Need you any inke and bombase?

动词 v.

To pad with, or as with, bombase. obsolete

— and though the owle seeme to be greater then the pigion, by reason of the thicknesse of her feathers, yet wyll they creepe in at as little a place as the pigion wyll, so small and little is theyr bodyes, though they be bombased with feathers.
To astonish. obsolete

— For Bacchus then seemed alive agen: glasse bottle emptied of wine clashing one against another, the roaring of 200 Mules and Asses, and continuall shooting and whooping of above two thousand Plebeians all the way, so amazed us; that wee thought, never any civill strangers were bombased with such a Triumph; the noyse that Vulcan and all his Cyclops make, were not comparable to these Mymallonians.

词形变化

bombases plural bombases present,singular,third-person bombasing participle,present bombased participle,past bombased past

词源

词源 1

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European.

词源 2

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European.