gelding

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A castrated male horse.
    — Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
  2. Any castrated male animal.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of geld form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

geldings plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English geld
English -ing
English gelding
From geld + -ing.
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