bric-a-brac

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/    美 /ˈbɹɪkəˌbɹæk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value. also,attributive,uncountable,usually
    — The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
  2. Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio. also,attributive,broadly,uncountable,usually
    — Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.

词形变化

bric-a-brac plural bricabrac alternative bric-à-brac alternative brick-a-brack alternative

词源

Borrowed from French bric-à-brac (“miscellaneous items of little value”), apparently from à bricq et à bracq (“at random; haphazardly”); bricq and bracq are expressive onomatopoeias of obscure origin.
1 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary