mow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈməʊ̯/|[ˈmɵ̞ʊ̯]    美 /ˈmoʊ̯/|[ˈmɔʊ̯]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
    — The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!
  2. A scornful grimace; a wry face. dialectal
    — Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
  3. A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans. regional
  4. Alternative form of mew (a seagull) alt-of,alternative,obsolete
  5. A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
    — I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.
  6. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
动词 v.
  1. To cut down grass or crops. transitive
    — He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
  2. To make grimaces, mock.
    — For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
  3. To put into mows.
  4. To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. often,transitive
    — In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
mowable mow down mower mow the grass mowyer push-mow remow unmowed haymow mowburn mowburning mowburnt
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow, reap”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian mjo (“to mow”), Dutch maaien (“to mow”), German mähen (“to mow”), Luxembourgish méien (“to mow”), Danish meje (“to mow”), Swedish meja (“to mow”); see also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“to harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to mow”).
词源 2
From Middle English mowe, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").
词源 3
From Middle English mowe, form Old English mūga, mūha, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō, *mūhō, from Proto-Germanic *mūgô, *mūhō; perhaps connected to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “heap”). Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).
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