dormouse

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɔː.maʊs/    美 /ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
    — For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
  2. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.; Glis glis (edible dormouse).
  3. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.; Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse). UK
  4. A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse). figuratively

词形变化

dormice plural doormouse alternative,misspelling

词汇关系

近义词
glirid
衍生词
fat dormouse garden dormouse Japanese dormouse Oriental dormouse

词源

From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
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