drummer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɹʌmə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈdɹʌmɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who plays the drums.
    — Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.
  2. A housebreaker. UK,slang
    — Bennett's central figure, Ray, is first and foremost a serial "drummer" (housebreaker in crim-speak), and only secondly a human being, […]
  3. A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
  4. A travelling salesman. dated,slang
    — You know what life on the road is like — these poor salesmen when they don't sell some big account they been counting on why they go into one terrible slump they set there in the hotel room brooding over it and after a while they go out and meet some other drummer down in the lobby and start chewing the rag about all their troubles and then they get feeling so sorry they go across the street and commence drinking beer and about three hours later they come back to the room and write the house one of these here letters how rotten the product is.
  5. Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
    — Bullock's liver will catch drummer.

词形变化

drummers plural drummers plural

词汇关系

近义词
hawker peddler
衍生词
bass drummer bucket drummer different drummer double drummer drummerless frame drummer golden drummer kettledrummer march to a different drummer march to one's own drummer march to the beat of a different drummer march to the beat of one's own drummer orange drummer snare drummer steel drummer talking-drummer talking drummer tenor drummer tom-tom drummer

词源

词源 1
From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English drum
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English drummer
From drum (“house”) + -er.
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