每日一词之落叶,每日一词cadge乞讨
每日一词之落叶,每日一词cadge乞讨Examples乞讨,索取 Definition: beg sponge
Word of the Day:August 30 2020
cadge
乞讨;索取
verb | KAJ
Definition
: beg sponge
乞讨,索取
Examples
"Reiner had his car and was driving to Manhattan to drop the book off to his editor. Wouk cadged a ride in and Reiner took him up on his polite offer to read it." — Frank Lovece Newsday (Long Island New York) 30 June 2020
Reiner开车去曼哈顿把书交给他的编辑。Wuuk搭车进去,Reiner恳请他看了下他写的书。"
"A friend ordered the Burrito Grande easily the biggest burrito I’ve ever seen. I cadged a bite and the flavors were delicate but tasty complemented by the creamy cheese sauce on top." — Leslye Gilchrist The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times 27 Sept. 2019
“我的朋友点了墨西哥玉米煎饼,这绝对是我见过的最大的玉米煎饼。我咬了一口,觉得口感很细腻丝滑,很美味,上面还有奶油芝士酱。”
Did You Know?
As long ago as the 1400s peddlers traveled the British countryside each with a packhorse or a horse and cart—first carrying produce from rural farms to town markets then returning with small wares to sell to country folk. The Middle English name for such traders was cadgear; Scottish dialects rendered the term as cadger. Etymologists are pretty sure the verb cadge was created as a back-formation of cadger (which is to say it was formed by removal of the "-er" suffix). At its most general cadger meant "carrier " and the verb cadge meant "to carry." More specifically the verb meant to go about as a cadger or peddler. By the 1800s it was used when someone who posed as a peddler turned out to be more of a beggar from which arose our present-day use.
早在1400年前,商贩们「peddlers」就用驮马或马车徘徊于英国的乡村,先是将农产品从农村农场运到城镇市场,然后再带些小商品返回乡村去。这些商人的中间名字都是 cadgear;在苏格兰方言将该词称为 cadger。词源学家非常肯定该动词 cadge 是 cadger 以逆向构词的方法创造来的(简单讲它就是通过去除“ -er”的后缀而形成的)。最普遍的用法,cadger的意思是“carrier「搬运人」”,而动词 cadge 的意思是“to carry「搬运」”。更具体些就是该动词被意为“ cadger「乞丐;叫卖小贩」” 或“ peddler「商贩」”。到了1800年左右,这个词被用来形容装扮成商贩的人实际上更像是乞丐「beggar」,而我们今天的用法就是从这个词演变而来的。
Name That Synonym
What synonym of cadge begins with "m" and also means "to move slowly or apathetically"?