morgue

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /mɔːɡ/    美 /moɹɡ/|[mo̞ɹɡ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. archaic
    — They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
  2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
  3. The archive and background information division of a newspaper. archaic
    — Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue

词形变化

morgues plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Baltimorgue morguelike

词源

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.
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