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单词 malshave
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malshaven.

Forms: Old English mælsceafa, early Middle English mæslesceafe, Middle English malschaue, Middle English malschave, Middle English malschawe.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: shave n.1
Etymology: < an unattested first element probably cognate with Old Icelandic mǫlr , Swedish mal , Danish møl , Gothic malo moth, and, from an ablaut variant, Middle Dutch milwe , Middle Low German mēle , Old High German mila , miliwa , milwa (Middle High German milwe , German Milbe ) mite (all probably ultimately cognate with meal n.1; compare Old Church Slavonic molĭ moth) + shave n.1The form in -sl- in quot. c1225 is probably a result of scribal error.
Obsolete.
A caterpillar.
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OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 310 Eruca, mælsceafa [c1225 Worcester mæslesceafe].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 19 (MED) As þe grete flye folweþ þe tras of þe malschave [v.r. malschawe], so after oþer woo com þe pestilence.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 43v Þe ere is I-greued by a worme liche a malschaue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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