comfit

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
    — Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.
  2. A computerised image of a suspect produced for the police force. Australia
    — A black and white comfit of a man with a chin shaped like a spade, doorstop for a nose..
动词 v.
  1. To make into a dry sugared confection. obsolete,transitive
    — 17th c, Abraham Cowley, The First Nemeæan Ode of Pindar: The Muse, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5, page 302, The fruit which does ſo quickly waſte, // Men ſcarce can ſee it, much leſs taſte, // Thou comfiteſt in ſweets to make it laſt.

词形变化

comfits plural comfits present,singular,third-person comfiting participle,present comfited participle,past comfited past comfits plural

词源

词源 1
From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
词源 2
Acronym, from Computer Facial Identification Techniques.
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