stickwoman

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A simple drawing of a woman with lines to represent limbs and torso.
    — Some had illustrated their cards in crayon, and I found these drawings strangely moving. A stickwoman convalescing in bed. A stickwoman weeping tears in red dashes like tracer rounds. In one card, I found myself joining the hapless stickwoman in a transparent, rocket-shaped house.
  2. A female dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.
    — I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform.
  3. A female player in a game played with a stick (such as hockey or lacrosse).
    — Panther stickwomen recorded five shutouts in the regular season and outscored their opponents by a solid 24-12 margin.

词形变化

stickwomen plural

词汇关系

并列词
stickman

词源

From stick + -woman.
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