scye

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
    — on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.

词形变化

scyes plural

词源

Borrowed from Scots sey (“armhole, cut of beef”), from Middle Scots say, possibly from Old Norse segi, sigi (“chunk, bite”), from Proto-Germanic *segô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
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