shyster英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

— True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.

动词 v.

To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics. intransitive
To exploit (someone or something) in this way. transitive

词形变化

shysters plural schister alternative scheister alternative sheister alternative schyster alternative shister alternative shaista alternative shiester alternative schiester alternative shysters present,singular,third-person shystering participle,present shystered participle,past shystered past schister alternative scheister alternative sheister alternative schyster alternative shister alternative shaista alternative shiester alternative schiester alternative

词源

词源 1

US origin, 19th century. The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin," possibly deriving from a historical sense of shy meaning "disreputable", equivalent to shy + -ster. Other sources suggest the word derives from shicer, from the German Scheißer (“incompetent worthless person”), from scheißen (“to defecate”), probably influenced by -ster. Not related to shylock.

词源 2

US origin, 19th century. The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin," possibly deriving from a historical sense of shy meaning "disreputable", equivalent to shy + -ster. Other sources suggest the word derives from shicer, from the German Scheißer (“incompetent worthless person”), from scheißen (“to defecate”), probably influenced by -ster. Not related to shylock.