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单词 joss
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joss1

noun dʒɒsdʒɑs
  • A Chinese religious statue or idol.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Producers proudly displayed products such as joss and incense sticks, belt buckles, knives textiles, scissors and papier-mâché items.
    • And last year, Italians spent over 450m euros on fortune tellers, faith - healers, holy men and joss - stick burners of every flavour.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Javanese dejos, from obsolete Portuguese deos, from Latin deus 'god'.

Rhymes

across, boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, gloss, Goss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross

joss2

noun dʒɒsdʒɑs
Australian informal
  • A person of influence or importance.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from dialect joss 'foreman', of unknown origin.

 
 

joss1

nounjäsdʒɑs
  • A Chinese religious statue or idol.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Producers proudly displayed products such as joss and incense sticks, belt buckles, knives textiles, scissors and papier-mâché items.
    • And last year, Italians spent over 450m euros on fortune tellers, faith - healers, holy men and joss - stick burners of every flavour.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Javanese dejos, from obsolete Portuguese deos, from Latin deus ‘god’.

joss2

nounjäsdʒɑs
Australian informal
  • A person of influence or importance.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from dialect joss ‘foreman’, of unknown origin.

 
 
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