kam

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Crooked, awry. not-comparable,obsolete
    — [Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him.

词源

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.
Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.
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