whin

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 wīn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.). countable,uncountable
    — 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
  2. Whinstone.
  3. The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria). countable,uncountable

词形变化

whins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Brockley Whins moor whin needle whin petty whin whin bruiser whinchat whin sparrow whin thrush

词源

From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).
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