whittle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.
    — Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.
  2. A covering for a bed; sheet. archaic
  3. A coarse greyish double blanket worn over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl. archaic
    — Her figure is tall, graceful, and slight; the severity of its outlines suiting well with the severity of her dress, with the brown stuff gown, and plain gray whittle
  4. A kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one. archaic
  5. A baby's flannel; a baby's woollen napkin; a flannel petticoat. archaic,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To cut or shape wood with a knife. intransitive,transitive
    — He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
  2. To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt). transitive
  3. To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate. figuratively,transitive
    — When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome

词形变化

whittles plural whittles present,singular,third-person whittling participle,present whittled participle,past whittled past whittles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
whittle away whittle down whittle the whalebone whittling

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.
词源 2
From Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (“cloak, blanket”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwītil, from Proto-Germanic *hwītilaz, equivalent to white + -le; akin to Icelandic hvítill (“white bedcover, sheet, linen”).
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