groin

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
    — The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
  2. US standard spelling of groyne. US,alt-of,standard
  3. The area adjoining this fold or depression.
    — He pulled a muscle in his groin.
  4. The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  5. The surface formed by two such vaults.
  6. The genitals. euphemistic
    — He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
动词 v.
  1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
    — In the scrum he somehow got groined.
  2. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
    — Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
  3. To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
    — The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated against a dark sky, and appearing like a fairy palace supported on a hundred columns, and groined over with leafy arches.
  4. To hollow out; to excavate. literary,transitive
    — Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

词形变化

groins plural groins present,singular,third-person groining participle,present groined participle,past groined past groins present,singular,third-person groining participle,present groined participle,past groined past groins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
groinal groined groinfield groin field groinful groin ringworm groin vault groinward groinwards lupoid form of groin ulceration serpiginous ulceration of the groin tendergroin
并列词
inguinal

词源

词源 1
From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
词源 2
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).
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