sneer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /snɪə̯/    美 /snɪɚ̯/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
    — Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinked lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  2. A display of contempt; scorn.
    — And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
动词 v.
  1. To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn. intransitive
    — So General Oakfield's friends taunted him with having been beaten, and Blackeston's friends sneered at him for not having called the general out. Blackeston, a studious and sensitive man, felt the taunts of his friends as only a student can.
  2. To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly. transitive
    — to sneer fulsome lies at a person

词形变化

sneers present,singular,third-person sneering participle,present sneered participle,past sneered past sneers plural

词汇关系

近义词
gird jeer jibe laugh at scoff scorn sneer
反义词
cheer laugh with
上位词
revile
衍生词
sneerer sneerful sneeringly sneerless sneerocracy sneer quote sneery unsneering
相关词
bah snarl
并列词
heckle jeer at mock

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sneren (“to mock, scoff at”), from Old English fnǣran (“to snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fnāʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *fnesaną (“to pant, gasp”). Akin to North Frisian sneere (“to scorn”), Middle High German snerren (“to chatter; gossip”), Danish snerre (“to growl, snarl”).
词源 2
From Middle English sneren (“to mock, scoff at”), from Old English fnǣran (“to snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fnāʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *fnesaną (“to pant, gasp”). Akin to North Frisian sneere (“to scorn”), Middle High German snerren (“to chatter; gossip”), Danish snerre (“to growl, snarl”).
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