| 释义 |
▪ I. keener1|ˈkiːnə(r)|
[f. keen v.2 + -er1.]
One who keens or laments; a professional mourner at Irish wakes and funerals who utters the keen.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Keeners, the name of the Irish Singing Mourners. 1845A. M. Hall Whiteboy vi. 55 The ban caointhe, or chief keener, had assumed her place beside the head of the bed. 1894W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 101 As he drew near came to him the cry of the keeners.
▪ II. keener2 U.S.|ˈkiːnə(r)|
[f. keen a. + -er1.]
One who drives a hard bargain; also, a person or thing in some way superior.
1839[see fix n. 1]. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3), Keener, a very shrewd person, one sharp at a bargain, what in England would be called ‘a keen hand’. Western. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 496 Keener, a noun made from the adjective, is a Western term for a sharp man. ‘I tell you he is a keener, you can't get on his blind side.’ 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §436/2 Cheat, keener. Ibid. §461/18 Swindler, keener. Ibid. §542/22 Bargainer, keener. Ibid. §743/2 Cardsharp, keener. |