请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 zad
释义

zadn.

Etymology: Variant of zed n.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Name of the letter Z; hence (slang) applied to a thing or person of crooked form. (Cf. zard at izzard n. Forms.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > Z
zedc1175
zee1580
izzard1597
zad1669
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > person
misshapec1400
counterfeit1557
hodmandod1664
zad1725
freak of nature1847
wingy1880
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 140 We may imagine it to have been anciently pronounced, as it is now by the Italians, Ds or Ts; and so to be called Zad from the Hebrew Tsadi: but yet..we..do as often call it Yzard.
1725 New Canting Dict. (at cited word) A meer Zad, used of any bandy-legg'd, crouch-back'd ..Person.
1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 35 Zad, crooked.
1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 6 W is defined from its form only, not from its use; and Z zad, or izard is an appellation equally useless.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xviii. 238 And how she sooth'd me, when with Study sad I labour'd on to reach the final Zad.
1877 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 9 141 A labouring man..said..at a night school, ‘I can't made a Zad.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1669
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:2025/1/12 0:12:28