dogtrot

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
  2. A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US
    — Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.
  3. A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US
    — One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen.
动词 v.
  1. To move at the pace of a dogtrot. intransitive
    — The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house. Southern-US,not-comparable
    — If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ...

词形变化

dogtrots plural dogtrots present,singular,third-person dogtrotting participle,present dogtrotted participle,past dogtrotted past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
词源 2
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
词源 3
From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.
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