stive

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
    — 1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231, The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.
  2. Obsolete form of stew. alt-of,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To stew; to be stifled or suffocated. UK,dialectal,intransitive,transitive
    — 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64, Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .
  2. Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram. transitive
    — His chamber being commonly ſtived vvith Friends or Suiters of one kind or other, vvhen he gave his legs, armes, and breſt to his ordinary ſervants to button and dreſſe him vvith little heed, […] then the Gentleman of his Robes throvving a cloak over his ſhoulders, he vvould make a ſtep into his Cloſet, and after a ſhort prayer, he vvas gone: […]

词形变化

stives present,singular,third-person stiving participle,present stived participle,past stived past stives present,singular,third-person stiving participle,present stived participle,past stived past

词源

词源 1
Apparently from a Middle Dutch noun related to stuiven and cognate to German Staub (“dust”).
词源 2
From Middle English stīven, alternative form of stūphen (“to steep (meat in a liquid)”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). Compare Scots stove (“to stew”) (whence Irish stobh), Old French estuver (“to put into hot water”), and Dutch stoven (“to stew, simmer”).
词源 3
Related to Italian stivàre, Portuguese estivar.
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