old wife

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.
    — Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
  2. Any of various marine fishes :; the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
  3. Any of various marine fishes :; A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)
  4. Any of various marine fishes :; Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish)
  5. Any of various marine fishes :; Certain spot-tail porgies (Diplodus ascensionis, Diplodus helenae)
  6. Any of various marine fishes :; Spondyliosoma cantharus (black seabream)
  7. Any of various marine fishes :; Trachinotus goodei (great pompano)
  8. Any of various marine fishes :; A wrasse
  9. The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis. Canada,US,archaic
    — The Oldvvives, be a foule that never leave tatling day or night, ſomething bigger than a Ducke.
  10. A chimney cap to prevent smoking. Scotland

词形变化

old wives plural

词源

From Middle English ald wyf, eld wiif, olde wyffe.
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