dell

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 dĕl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
    — To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.
  2. A young woman; a wench. obsolete
    — Sweet doxies and dells
  3. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
  4. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.; A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

词形变化

dells plural dells plural

词汇关系

衍生词
arch dell wapping dell

词源

词源 1
From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.
词源 2
Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).
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