wideawake

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bird, the sooty tern.
  2. A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt. historical
    — 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884). "He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."

词形变化

wideawakes plural wide-awake alternative

词源

* From wide awake.
* (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.
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