A woman's breast or (now rare) nipple. Also figurative. Now chiefly archaic and Scottish, English regional (northern), Irish English, and U.S. (Mi…
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释义 | the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple (23) papc1175 A woman's breast or (now rare) nipple. Also figurative. Now chiefly archaic and Scottish, English regional (northern), Irish English, and U.S. (Mi… teat?a1200 Originally: the small protuberance at the tip of each breast of a woman, upon which the ducts of the mammary gland open, and from which the milk is… pap-head?a1425 a nipple. big?a1439 A teat. English regional in later use. wartc1440 A nipple. Obsolete. rare. (So German warze.) teat headc1500 a nipple. nipplec1510 The small projecting structure into which the ducts of the mammary glands open externally in female mammals (except monotremes), and from which milk… spin1525 A teat. dug1530 The pap or udder of female mammalia; also the teat or nipple; usually in reference to suckling. As applied to a woman's breast, now contemptuous. spean1573 A teat or nipple, esp. of a cow. bud1593 transferred. Used of things resembling buds: as the rudiment of a horn when it begins to sprout; a nipple; a pimple in farcy, a disease of horses. milk papa1616 a teat, a nipple. niplet1648 A nipple. dud1679 A teat, a nipple. mamilla1684 Anatomy. Originally: †a breast; (later) spec. the male breast (obsolete). Now: the nipple of the breast. duddlea1708 A teat, a nipple. diddy1788 A woman's breast or nipple, or her milk; the teat of an animal. tittya1825 colloquial or slang. A teat, a nipple. knob1941 U.S. slang. In plural. A woman's nipples. Also occasionally in singular: a nipple. Now rare. nip1970 A nipple. Usually in plural. Subcategories:— of male (3) |
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