moose

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 mo͞os

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.
    — We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.
  2. An Asian girl taken as a lover. US,slang
    — In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.
  3. Any of the extinct moose-like deer of the genera Cervalces and Libralces.
    — Europe’s giant beavers lived at the same time as the first moose, Libralces gallicus.
  4. An ugly person. colloquial,derogatory,figuratively

词形变化

moose plural mooses dated,plural,rare meese humorous,nonstandard,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Alaska moose Bull Moose cow moose eastern moose ghost moose meese mooseberry moosebird mooseburger moosecall moose deer moose elm moosehair moosehide moosehood mooseknuckle moose knuckle mooseless mooselike mooselimb moose limb mooseling moose maple moose milk Moose River mooseskin moose test moosette moosewood moosey moose yard mooseyard mooseyness northwestern moose Shiras moose spirit moose stag moose

词源

词源 1
Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Japanese むすめ (“daughter”).
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