caponize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use. transitive
    — To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

词形变化

caponizes present,singular,third-person caponizing participle,present caponized participle,past caponized past

词源

Etymology tree
English capon
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English caponize
From capon + -ize.
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