mouldwarp

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈməʊldwɔːp/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mole, Talpa europea. archaic,regional
    — For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]

词形变化

mouldwarps plural modiwarp alternative molewarp alternative moldwarp alternative modiwort alternative moldiwarp alternative moudiwarp alternative moudiwart alternative moudiewarp alternative mouldiwarp alternative mowdiwart alternative mowdiwort alternative

词源

From Middle English moldewarpe, moldewarp, moldewerp, (also molwarpe, molewarpe), from Old English *moldeweorpe, ("mole"; literally "earth-thrower"; compare Old English wandeweorpe (“mole”)), from Proto-Germanic *muldawurpiz (“earth-thrower, mole”), equivalent to mould + warp.
Cognate with Scots malwart, modewarp (“mole”), Dutch molworp (“mole”), Low German mulworp, molworm (“mole”), German Maulwurf (“mole”), Danish muldvarp (“mole”), Swedish mullvad (“mole”), Icelandic moldvarpa (“mole”).
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