groper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹoʊpə/    美 /ˈɡɹoʊpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Agent noun of grope: one who gropes. agent,form-of
    — [T]he Hand muſt likevviſe act its part, and concur therein [with the eye], tho' not to touch it [the fruit] roughly upon the Tree (nothing is more offenſive to me than thoſe Gropers, vvho, to gather one according to their Mind, vvill ſpoil a hundred by the violent impreſſion of their Unskillful Thumb) but I vvould have the Hand play its part in the manner I ſhall explain hereafter.
  2. Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Australia
    — Everybody knows that there are big groper in the Gulf of Carpentaria, but those that joined Norm Phantom on his journeys were the ones nobody else had ever seen.
  3. An employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially one who performs inspections on passengers. US
  4. hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios) New-Zealand

词形变化

gropers plural gropers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
groyper sandgroper baldchin groper bass groper

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English grope
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English groper
From grope + -er.
词源 2
Variant of grouper.
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