单词 | skedaddler |
释义 | skedaddler in British English (skɪˈdædlə) noun someone who skedaddles skedaddler in American English (skɪˈdædlər) noun informal 1. a person or thing that skedaddles 2. Canadian a U.S. citizen who fled to Canada rather than serve in the armed forces during the American Civil War Word origin [1860–65, Amer.; skedaddle + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: calibrate, monism, prep, raider, trade name-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner) |
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