palsy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpælzi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. countable,uncountable
    — The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen
  2. Mate, chum. slang
    — Listen, palsy, you're not the boss.
动词 v.
  1. To paralyse, either completely or partially.
    — 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.
形容词 adj.
  1. Chummy, friendly. colloquial

词形变化

palsies plural palsie alternative,obsolete palsies present,singular,third-person palsying participle,present palsied participle,past palsied past more palsy comparative most palsy superlative palsies plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English pal
English -sy
English palsy
From pal + -sy.
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