sporter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who sports something.
    — But today, the mustache cannot shake its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.
  2. A firearm suitable for sporting use.
  3. One who takes part in sport or games. archaic
    — Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.
  4. One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
    — We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.

词形变化

sporters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
sporterize

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Anglo-Norman des-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Anglo-Norman porter
Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
Middle English disporten
Middle English sporten
English sport
English -er
English sporter
From sport + -er.
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