gamb

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɡamb/    美 /ɡæmb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc.
    — Vachell, Eng. a bull's gamb in pale, couped, argent. […] Vaughan of Littleton, Middlesex, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human heart, gules.
  2. A person's leg; gam. slang
    — […] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs.

词形变化

gambs plural gambe alternative

词汇关系

相关词
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词源

From Middle French gambe (variant of jambe) from Late Latin gamba (hoof, leg, shank). Doublet of jamb, gamba, and gam.
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