knavery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The antics or tricks of a knave; boyish mischief. countable,uncountable
    — […] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wittes and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet: he was full of ieſts, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes; I haue forgot his name.
  2. An unprincipled action; deceit. countable,uncountable
    — Caſsio’s a proper man, let me ſee now, / To get his place and to make vp my will, / A double knauery—how, how,—let me see, […]

词形变化

knaveries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Scandiknavery

词源

Etymology tree
English knave
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English knavery
From knave + -ery.
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