spow

动词 v.
发音 spou

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. An imaginary action resembling the headcarrying of a teapot, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the past participle form in English-speaking children.
    — this is a man who knows how to spow

词形变化

spows present,singular,third-person spowing participle,present spowed participle,past spowed past

词源

Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before. Probably influenced by spout
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