shiner

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 shīn'ə

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who shines; a luminary.
  2. One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
  3. A black eye. colloquial
  4. Raccoon eyes. colloquial
  5. A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign. dated,slang
    — Has she the shiners, d'ye think?
  6. Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
  7. Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
  8. A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
  9. A moonshiner. slang
  10. A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
    — Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe. But nobody at that table would let a shiner pass.
  11. A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
    — Shiners are a big part of the wine business. […] Shiners are finished, bottled wines that don’t have a label or typically any other identifying feature until a vintner purchases them and then places a label on the bottles. […] They’re called shiners because they are unlabeled and have a “shiny” appearance.
  12. A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).

词形变化

shiners plural

词汇关系

衍生词
beautiful shiner bigeye shiner bigmouth shiner blackchin shiner blacknose shiner blacktail shiner blueside shiner bridle shiner carmine shiner comely shiner common shiner eastern shiner emerald shiner finescale shiner flagfin shiner golden shiner highscale shiner Kiamichi shiner palezone shiner phantom shiner redlip shiner red shiner redside shiner red-striped shiner rosefin shiner sand shiner satinfin shiner scarlet shiner sharpnose shiner shiner perch shoeshiner silverband shiner spottail shiner swallowtail shiner Tennessee shiner

词源

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).
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