wug
名词 n.
英 /wʌɡ/
美 /wʌɡ/|/wɐɡ/
英文释义
名词 n.
- An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.
- In folk taxonomy, a creature with worm or insect features; colloquially, a bug or creepy-crawly.
词源
词源 1
Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before.
词源 2
Blend of worm + bug.
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