ghoti
名词 n.
英 /fɪʃ/|/ˈɡəʊ̯.tiː/
美 /fɪʃ/|/ˈɡoʊ̯.ti/|/ˈɡəʉ̯.tiː/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A constructed word said to be an alternative spelling of fish.
— Robinson suggested to me that William Ollier could have come up with ghoti in a parlor game of Ellis-inspired silly spellings.
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Alternative letter-case form of Ghoti.
— The bangals deride ghoti food as cloyingly sweet, bland without much oil and spices — ‘What do the ghotis know of good cooking anyway?’ On their part, the ghotis decry the bangal way of eating foul smelling shutki fish and drowning their food in too much oil and spices. ‘The bangals even put fish in their shukto, can you believe it?’ they exclaim.
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A type of small Bengali waterpot used for washing.
— His metal vessels are—of brass, a kalsi, a garu, and two ghotis; of bell-metal, three thalis, three ghotis, and four batis.
词源
词源 1
A jocular spelling of fish (/fɪʃ/) used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling:
* gh, /f/ as in rough, /ɹʌf/;
* o, /ɪ/ as in women, /ˈwɪm.ɪn/; and
* ti, /ʃ/ as in nation, /ˈneɪ̯.ʃən/.
Though frequently reported to be a coinage of George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), this term dates back to at least 1855.
Although the goal of the word is to highlight the irregularities of the English orthography, it deliberately exaggerates them, as ⟨gh⟩ is /f/ only word-finally and ⟨ti⟩ is /ʃ/ only before a vowel.
* gh, /f/ as in rough, /ɹʌf/;
* o, /ɪ/ as in women, /ˈwɪm.ɪn/; and
* ti, /ʃ/ as in nation, /ˈneɪ̯.ʃən/.
Though frequently reported to be a coinage of George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), this term dates back to at least 1855.
Although the goal of the word is to highlight the irregularities of the English orthography, it deliberately exaggerates them, as ⟨gh⟩ is /f/ only word-finally and ⟨ti⟩ is /ʃ/ only before a vowel.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Bengali ঘটি (ghoṭi)bor.
English ghoti
Borrowed from Bengali ঘটি (ghoṭi).
Bengali ঘটি (ghoṭi)bor.
English ghoti
Borrowed from Bengali ঘটি (ghoṭi).
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