cudgel英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.

— The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.
Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. figuratively

— As above said, legibility depends also much on the design of the letter; and again I take up the cudgels against compressed type, and that especially in Roman letters: […]

动词 v.

To strike with a cudgel.

— The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).

— “Most remarkable,” murmured Tarzan, cudgeling his brain for some pretext upon which to turn the subject.

词形变化

cudgels plural cudgels present,singular,third-person cudgeling US,participle,present cudgelling UK,participle,present cudgeled US,participle,past cudgeled US,past cudgelled UK,participle,past cudgelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词

becudgel take up the cudgel for cudgeler cudgel one's brain uncudgeled uncudgelled

词源

词源 1

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).

词源 2

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).