canaille

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 kə-nī􂀽'

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. collective,countable
    — I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be wasted on them.
  2. Shorts or inferior flour. Canada,uncountable

词形变化

canailles plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder.
Latin canēs
Latin canisder.
Vulgar Latin *canālia
Italian canagliabor.
Middle French canaillebor.
English canaille
Borrowed from Middle French canaille.
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