jaywalking

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of behaving as a jaywalker. uncountable
    — […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare[…
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of jaywalk form-of,gerund,participle,present

词源

词源 1
Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English jaywalk
English -ing
English jaywalking
From jaywalk + -ing.
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