no-hoper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that has no hope of success.
    — Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against? Tim Stamper: Mackenzie, Earle, Woolton, Samuels, and three no-hopers: Bairsted, Llewellyn-Jones-Rhys, and Bogg.

词形变化

no-hopers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English no
Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder.
Old English tōhopa
Old English hopa
Middle English hope
English hope
English -er
English no-hoper
From no + hope + -er.
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