gunny

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp. uncountable,usually
    — Traffic is brisk, and goods consists of rice, gunny (hessian), maize and native implements.
  2. A gunnery sergeant. countable,informal
    — The gunny's voice reverberated between the barracks as we marched, “Ya left right . . . left right . . . left right left. […] Then the gunny unexpectedly stopped our forward movement. “Company, halt!”
  3. Clipping of gunny sack abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,countable,usually
形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gun. informal
  2. Full of guns or gunplay. informal
    — 1918, B. M. Bower, Skyrider "Aw, ferget them two guns!" Bland surrendered. "This is sure the gunniest country I ever stopped in. Even the Janes–"

词形变化

gunnies plural gunnies plural gunnier comparative gunniest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
gunnybag gunnycloth gunny sack

词源

词源 1
From Hindi and Marathi गनी (ganī) or गोन (gon), from Sanskrit गोणी (goṇī), ultimately of Dravidian origin. Doublet of gunia.
词源 2
A shortening of gunnery sergeant
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gunny
From gun + -y.
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