masker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
    — But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].
  2. That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
动词 v.
  1. To render giddy or senseless dialectal,transitive
    — To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence.
  2. To be bewildered. dialectal,intransitive
  3. To choke; stifle. dialectal,transitive
  4. To decay; rust. dialectal,transitive

词形变化

maskers present,singular,third-person maskering participle,present maskered participle,past maskered past maskers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antimasker pro-masker

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English mask
English -er
English masker
From mask + -er.
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