merrythought

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The wishbone or furcula. archaic
    — One puts yᵉ merrithought on his nose (slightly) like a paire of spectacles, and shakes his head till he shakes it off his nose.

词形变化

merrythoughts plural

词源

Etymology tree
Middle English mery
English merry
Proto-Indo-European *teng-der.
Proto-Germanic *þankijaną
Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht
Old English þōht
Middle English thought
English thought
English merrythought
From merry + thought, traditionally explained with reference to the pleasant thoughts imagined when the bone is ritually broken.
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