skiff

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
    — Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
  2. A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.
    — A skiff of rain blew into the shed and the two men moved their chairs back.
  3. An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.
    — In the fourth year, "light skiff" pruning removes just the uppermost growth.
  4. Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
    — I went alone into a Shepherd's boat, A skiff that to a willow-tree was tied Within a rocky cave, its usual home […]
  5. A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).
    — At sunrise there was a slight skiff of ice on some water in a bucket; […]
动词 v.
  1. To navigate in a skiff. transitive
  2. To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc). dialectal
    — We must be constantly alert to increased accident potentials in taxiing, takeoff, and landings on ice-glazed and snow-skiffed runways.
  3. To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.
    — Skiffing is the lightest form of pruning involving as it does removal of a certain amount of growth above the previous pruning level.

词形变化

skiffs plural skiffs present,singular,third-person skiffing participle,present skiffed participle,past skiffed past skiffs plural skiffs present,singular,third-person skiffing participle,present skiffed participle,past skiffed past skiffs plural skiffs present,singular,third-person skiffing participle,present skiffed participle,past skiffed past

词汇关系

衍生词
mackinaw skiff Orkney skiff skanoe skiffless skifflike
相关词
skiffle skift

词源

词源 1
From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship.
词源 2
From Scots skiff (“light shower of rain or snow”), from skiff (“move lightly”); compare the derivative skiffle (whence English skiffle) and (English skift (“light dusting of snow”) from) Scots skift (“light shower of snow”), from skift (“move lightly”), perhaps related to shift/Old Norse skipta, or perhaps an onomatopoeic formation.
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