stonewall

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈstəʊnwɔːl/    美 /ˈstoʊnwɔl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An obstruction. idiomatic
    — That was what was causing the Government to hesitate in bringing down the Bill. There would be so many amendments proposed, and so many stonewalls erected, that much time would be occupied, and, that being so, he felt he must go on with other business first.
  2. A refusal to cooperate. idiomatic
    — If it was in order to use the word "stonewalling," I would say your stonewall has come to an end; but it is not in order. I would suggest that we bring the proceedings to an end decently, and if the obstruction is not to go on, then I think the proper thing for me to do is to move the ordinary motion, that the House do now adjourn, and let it go without any further talk.
  3. An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky). historical,idiomatic
    — [W]e are at a loss to "calculate" the ingredients which enter into such mysterious compounds as "apple-jack," "white nose," "stonewall," chain-lightning," "railroad," "rattle-snake," "back-straightener," "corpse-reviver," "moral suasion," "bottomless-pit," "sabbath-calm," etc.
  4. Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”). alt-of,alternative
    — The grass looks tempting, and the stonewalls seem built to jump; but the farther west we get, the more rugged become the hillsides and the more broken the beds of the stream, till the scene becomes more akin to the home of the chamois than of the fox. The stonewalls grow higher, stronger, and more frequent, as you rise from the low country and get more fully among the sheepwalks.
动词 v.
  1. To obstruct. transitive
    — Either the thing to be stonewalled must be itself a bad thing, or it must be stonewalled as the only means of preventing some other wrong being committed; obviously, paying the public creditor was no wrong, and the budget, if wrong, could be effectually obstructed by stonewalling the financial resolutions.
  2. To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information. ambitransitive,informal
    — At the press conference, the Prime Minister appeared to be stonewalling when asked about tax increases.
形容词 adj.
  1. Certain, definite. UK,not-comparable
    — Fortune favoured the fortunate when Martin Atkinson ignored a stonewall penalty.

词形变化

stonewalls plural stonewalls present,singular,third-person stonewalling participle,present stonewalled participle,past stonewalled past

词汇关系

衍生词
stonewaller stonewalling

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stonwal, stone wall, stanewalle (“wall made of stone”), from Old English stānweall (“stonewall”), equivalent to stone + wall. The alcoholic drink (sense 3) was perhaps named thus because its effect was as potent as running into a stone wall.
词源 2
Apparently a corruption of stone cold.
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