eagre

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a tidal bore
    — A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.
形容词 adj.
  1. Obsolete form of eager. alt-of,obsolete
    — Howſoeuer it were, the Lacedæmonians being no leſſe wearied of the warre, than the Athenians were eagre to purſue it, the one obtained their eaſe, and the other the execution and honor which they deſired : for all the Greekes (thoſe of Peloponmeſus excepted) willingly ſubiected themſelues to the commandment of the Athenians which was both beginning of their greatneſſe in that preſent age, and of their ruine in the next ſucceeding.

词形变化

more eagre comparative most eagre superlative eagres plural aegir alternative eager alternative eger alternative egre alternative eygre alternative

词源

词源 1
See eager.
词源 2
Not attested in Middle English; either from Old English *ēagor (“water, sea”) (attested in ēagorstrēam) or Old Norse ægir (“sea, ocean”); however, both possibilities fail to show the phonological outcome one would expect.
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