catchpenny

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods.
    — Near-synonym: loss leader
  2. A publication, etc. intended to make money, with no particular merit otherwise.
    — CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE: COMPRISING "COCKS," OR "CATCHPENNIES," A Large and Curious Assortment of STREET DROLLERIES, SQUIBS, HISTORIES, COMIC STORIES IN PROSE AND VERSE, […]

词形变化

catchpennies plural

词源

Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin captus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Vulgar Latin -io
Vulgar Latin *captiāre
Old French chacierbor.
Anglo-Norman cachierbor.
Middle English cacchen
English catch
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor.
Latin patina
Latin panna?
Latin pannus?
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
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Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *panningaz
Proto-West Germanic *panning
Old English peniġ
Middle English peny
English penny
English catchpenny
From catch + penny.
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