flinder

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter
    — “It’s to swear to stand by one another, and never tell the gang’s secrets, even if you’re chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts one of the gang.”
  2. A butterfly or moth. dialectal,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner intransitive

词形变化

flinders plural flender alternative flinders plural flinders present,singular,third-person flindering participle,present flindered participle,past flindered past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flendris, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Norwegian flindra, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”).
词源 2
From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder.
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