| 单词 | bitser |
| 释义 | bitser in British English (ˈbɪtsə) noun Australian informal a mongrel dog Word origin C20: from bits o' bits of, as in his dog is bits o' this and bits o' thatbitser in American English (ˈbɪtsər) noun Austral informal a mongrel dog Word origin [1905–10; perh. bit2 + -s3 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airway, aspect ratio, cadre, push-up, white list-s an ending marking nouns as plural (boys; wolves), occurring also on nouns that have no singular (dregs; entrails; pants; scissors), or on nouns that have a singular with a different meaning (clothes; glasses; manners; thanks). The pluralizing value of -s is weakened or lost in a number of nouns that now often take singular agreement,as the names of games (billiards; checkers; tiddlywinks) and of diseases (measles; mumps; pox; rickets); the latter use has been extended to create informal names for a variety of involuntaryconditions, physical or mental (collywobbles; giggles; hots; willies). A parallel set of formations, where -s has no plural value, are adjectives denoting socially unacceptable or inconvenientstates (bananas; bonkers; crackers; nuts; preggers; starkers); -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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