dwale

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Belladonna or a similar soporific plant. countable,uncountable
    — Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —
  2. A sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The authors studied the ingredients and method of administration to try to ascertain whether dwale was effective, and they found it certainly could have worked.
  3. A torpor. countable,dialectal,uncountable
    — He's in a dwale, a dead sleep; a common expression in the North of England.
  4. A bugbear. countable,uncountable
    — Consume us; shake the darkness like a tree, And fill the night with mischiefs, — blights and dwales, Weevils, and rots, and cankers!
动词 v.
  1. To mutter deliriously. dialectal

词形变化

dwales plural dwales present,singular,third-person dwaling participle,present dwaled participle,past dwaled past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dwale (“stupor; deception; delusion, evil”), from Old English dwala, dwola (“error, heresy; doubt; madman, deceiver, heretic”) and Old Norse dvala (“sleep, stupor”).
词源 2
From Middle English dwalen, from Old English dwalian, from Proto-Germanic *dwalōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to make turbid”).
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