Nessie

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中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The Loch Ness monster. informal
    — That flurry of activity had been set off by a magisterial book (Whyte, 1957), reinforced by Dinsdale’s filming of a Nessie (Dinsdale, 1961) and culminating in successful underwater photography (Rines et al., 1976) by the Academy of Applied Science (AAS). Nessies were assigned the taxonomic identity Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Anonymous, 1975).
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Agnes.

词形变化

Nessies plural Nessies plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English Ness
English -ie
English Nessie
From Ness + -ie.
词源 2
Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor
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