by-blow

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌɪbləʊ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort.
    — Either commander took speedy advantage of it—Hopton to make a swift diversion into Sussex and capture Arundel Castle (which was but a by-blow, for in a few weeks he had lost it again).
  2. An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father. slang
    — ‘Nay,’ said the landlady, ‘if I thought he was a gentleman's son, thof he was a bye-blow, I should behave to him in another guess manner; for many of these bye-blows come to be great men, and, as my poor first husband used to say, never affront any customer that's a gentleman.’

词形变化

by-blows plural byblow alternative bye-blow alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English by-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *blēaną
Proto-West Germanic *blāan
Old English blāwan
Middle English blowen
English blow
English by-blow
From by- + blow.
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