pelter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who pelts.
    — With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
  2. A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc. figuratively,sometimes
  3. A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. dated
动词 v.
  1. To pelt. dialectal,nonstandard
    — A person is "peltered" when he is subjected to a shower of stones, a shower of hail-stones, or a shower of anything. "Naay, gi'e ower peltering — one at a time! that's enew."

词形变化

pelters plural pelters present,singular,third-person peltering participle,present peltered participle,past peltered past

词汇关系

衍生词
agropelter

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English pelt
English -er
English pelter
From pelt + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English pelt
English -er
English pelter
From pelt + -er.
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