worrier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.
    — You are such a worrier! I'm sure everything will turn out all right.
  2. A person who causes worry in others.
  3. An animal that seizes or shakes another by the throat.
    — The person owning a dog which had destroyed sheep could be made to pay for the damage; but the Court should also have an undoubted power to order incurable sheep-worriers to be destroyed.

词形变化

worriers plural

词汇关系

近义词
worrywart bag of nerves jitterbug nervous Nellie nervous wreck neurotic obsessive tightass wiener worrier worryguts
上位词
coward
下位词
hypochondriac
相关词
agonize nervous

词源

Etymology tree
English worry
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English worrier
From worry + -er.
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