open-arse

名词 n.
/ˈəʊpənɑːs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The medlar fruit. UK,regional
    — In several of our counties the same fruit is called an open arse; another of those unluckily belotted travesties of a very properly-expressed original phrase [...].

词形变化

open-arses plural

词源

From Middle English open-ers, from Old English openears, corresponding to open + arse, ‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3.
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