请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 puff-fist
释义

puff-fistn.

Forms: 1500s puffes fistes (plural), 1600s pufffoyst, 1600s–1700s puff-fist. N.E.D. (1909) also records a form puff-foist.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: puff n., fist n.2
Etymology: < puff n. + fist n.2 Compare earlier wolf's-fist n. and puckfist n., and later bullfist n.Compare German Bofist , Bovist (1631; > scientific Latin Bovista (Linnaeus 1753)), Middle Dutch bovijste (Dutch bovist ), Swedish bofis (1668). With the form pufffoyst compare foist n.3
Obsolete.
= puffball n. 1a. Also figurative (cf. puffball n. 1b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > puff-ball
wolf's-fista1300
puckfistc1300
puff1538
earth-puff1585
foist1593
fist1597
fuzz-ball1597
puff-fist1597
bunt1601
fuzz1601
bullfist1611
mully-puff1629
fist-ball1635
puffball1649
puck-ball1730
puffin1755
lycoperdon1756
frog cheese1766
puck1766
fuzzy-ballc1850
ball smut1925
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1386 Puffes Fistes are commonly called in Latine Lupi crepitus, or Woolfes Fistes:..in English Puffes Fistes, & Fussebals in the north.
1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes xxiii. 85 That uncleanly mushrum ball Which in some countries wee a Pufffoyst call.
1637 J. Shirley Example ii. sig. C3v He is no man of that cleere fame, to ingage in my serious friend-ship, a verie puff-fist.
1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. Puff-ball, puff-fist, sop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
<
n.1597
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 3:09:04