英语词汇“widdershins”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

widdershins

/ˈwɪdəʃɪnz

(also withershins)

adverb chiefly Scottish

In a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise: she danced widdershins around him...

These are all created by either a single point of applied pressure or a combination of pressure and motion (back and forwards within track, clockwise, withershins).
‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins.
Lets face it; I was not trapped inside a rickety old church with the dog running widdershins about it so I think I am safe.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider 'against' + sin 'direction'; the second element was associated with Scots sin 'sun'.

单词	widdershins
释义	widdershins /ˈwɪdəʃɪnz / (also withershins) adverb chiefly Scottish In a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; anticlockwise: she danced widdershins around him... These are all created by either a single point of applied pressure or a combination of pressure and motion (back and forwards within track, clockwise, withershins). ‘Watch and learn,’ his friend replies enigmatically, before changing the clockwise finger-spin to widdershins. Lets face it; I was not trapped inside a rickety old church with the dog running widdershins about it so I think I am safe. Origin Early 16th century: from Middle Low German weddersins, from Middle High German widersinnes, from wider 'against' + sin 'direction'; the second element was associated with Scots sin 'sun'.
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