catnap

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈkætˌnæp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
    — Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.
动词 v.
  1. To take a catnap (short sleep or nap). intransitive
    — A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
  2. To kidnap a cat. transitive
    — When you suspect your cat's up a tree because he was chased or now locked up in the parked car because someone conspired to catnap him (he is quite the personality), what economic scales could they employ to set ransom?

词形变化

catnaps plural catnaps present,singular,third-person catnapping participle,present catnapped participle,past catnapped past catnaps present,singular,third-person catnapping participle,present catnapped participle,past catnapped past

词源

词源 1
From cat + nap. Named in reference to the feline habit of taking multiple, brief, and light naps throughout the day to conserve energy, rather than sleeping for one long, uninterrupted block.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kattuz
Proto-West Germanic *kattu
Old English catt
Middle English cat
English cat
English -nap
English catnap
From cat + -nap.
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