tusk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʌsk/    美 /ˈtʌsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
    — Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  2. An edible fish, Brosme brosme.
  3. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  4. A tusk shell.
  5. A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
  6. A sharp point.
  7. The share of a plough.
动词 v.
  1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  2. To gore with the tusks.
  3. To bare or gnash the teeth. obsolete

词形变化

tusks plural tusks present,singular,third-person tusking participle,present tusked participle,past tusked past tusks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
detusk milk tusk tusked tuskless tusklike tuskwise tussock
相关词
tusked tusker tusklike tusky tusk tenon

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz
Proto-West Germanic *tunsk
Old English tūsc
Old English tūx
Middle English tusk
English tusk
From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
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