swab

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 swŏb

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
  2. A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
  3. A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
  4. A mop, especially on a ship.
  5. A sailor; a swabby. slang
    — As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.
  6. A naval officer's epaulet. slang
动词 v.
  1. To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. transitive
    — swab the deck of a ship

词形变化

swabs plural swabs present,singular,third-person swabbing participle,present swabbed participle,past swabbed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber ("scrubber, mop, swab")
词源 2
Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber ("scrubber, mop, swab")
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