sow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /saʊ/    美 /saʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female animal; A female pig.
  2. A female animal; A female bear; she-bear.
    — Lucky he wasn't a sow. They've usually just dropped a cub this time of year. A sow would have been cranky as hell.
  3. A female animal; A female guinea pig.
  4. A contemptible, often fat woman. derogatory,slang
  5. Clipping of sowbug. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  6. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
  7. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
    — In England, it was generally termed a 'sow', if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived.
  8. A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
动词 v.
  1. To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). ambitransitive
    — When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
  2. To spread abroad; to propagate. ambitransitive,figuratively
    — as you sow, so shall you reap
  3. To scatter over; to besprinkle. figuratively
    — The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, […] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
  4. Obsolete spelling of sew. alt-of,obsolete

词形变化

sows plural swine archaic,plural zew alternative,dialectal soo alternative,dialectal sows present,singular,third-person sowing participle,present sowed past sown participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
brood sow bucksow drunk as a sow drunk as David's sow make a silk purse of a sow's ear niggersow sole sowback sowbane sowbelly sowbread sowfoot sowgelder sowlike sow stall sow thistle as you sow, so shall you reap besow intersow oversow reap what one sows resow self-sown sowable sow dragon's teeth sower sown sow one's oats sow one's wild oats sow the seeds of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind sow wild oats undersow unsowed
相关词
Sow

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sew-?
Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *suH-der.
Proto-Germanic *sugō
Proto-West Germanic *sugu
Old English sugu
Middle English sowe
English sow
From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).
See also West Frisian sûch, Dutch zeug, Low German Söög, German Sau, Swedish sugga, Norwegian sugge; also Welsh hwch (“pig”), Sanskrit सूकर (sūkará, “swine, boar”); also Danish so, German Sau, Latin sūs, Tocharian B suwo, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Albanian thi, Avestan 𐬵𐬏 (hū, “boar”). See also swine. Doublet of soor.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Germanic *sēaną
Proto-West Germanic *sāan
Old English sāwan
Middle English sowen
English sow
From Middle English sowen, from Old English sāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *sāan, from Proto-Germanic *sēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-. Compare Dutch zaaien, German säen, Danish så, Norwegian Bokmål så.
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