sweat hole

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore. archaic,nonstandard,rare
    — Skin surface consists of four elements such as furrows, ridges, hair holes and sweat holes.
  2. A large hole in the ground, heated with a fire, into which a sick person is brought wrapped in blankets (once the fire is removed), with a jug of water for making steam, the whole covered by an awning to hold the steam in; an underground sweat lodge.
    — On the lake shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months and at one of them a newly made "sweat hole" where the medicine man had treated the sick .
  3. An uncomfortably hot enclosed space.
    — Even though the mercury was rising to treble figures in this underground sweat hole they were in, Vince saw that Guy Ruley remained cool and calculating, operating with all the heart of a humming refrigerator.

词形变化

sweat holes plural sweat-hole alternative swete-holle alternative,obsolete sweat holes plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English swet hole, a partial calque of Old English swātþyrl (“pore”, literally “sweat-hole”). Cognate with German Schweißloch (“pore, sweat hole”), Danish swedehul (“pore”), Icelandic svitahola (“pore”).
词源 2
From sweat + hole.
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