单词 | west wind |
释义 | west wind/ˌwɛst ˈwɪnd/noun 1A wind blowing from the west.
2 Mah-jong. Usually with capital initials. Any one of the four tiles representing this wind. Also: the player who draws such a tile at the outset of a game, or who succeeds to this designation at a later stage. OriginOld English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of west + wind. Compare Dutch westwind, Middle Low German westwind, German Westwind. |
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