| 单词 | cheville |
| 释义 | cheville[ shuh-vee ] / ʃəˈvi / noun Prosody.a word or expression whose only function is to fill a metrical gap in a verse or to balance a sentence. Compare expletive (def. 2). Origin of chevilleFirst recorded in 1880–85; from French: literally, “ankle, dowel, peg, plug,” the last sense giving rise to the English meaning of a filler word or phrase in a sentence or line of verse, from Latin clāvicula “key, tendril, pivot”; see clavicle Words nearby chevillechevaux-de-frise, chevee, chevelure, cheveret, chevet, cheville, Cheviot, Cheviot Hills, chevon, Chevra Kadisha, chèvre Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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