gherkin英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle Ireland,UK
The penis. slang

— “Even my gherkin is sorry, and it didn't talk shit about anybody," persists Adrian. The edge of Titus's mouth quivers in laughter.

专有名词

Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin. alt-of

词形变化

gherkins plural gerkin alternative,archaic the gherkin canonical gerkin alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词

burr gherkin jerkin the gherkin jerk the gherkin sea gherkin West Indian gherkin

词源

词源 1

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.

词源 2

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.