quaint
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[编辑]词源 1
[编辑]源自中古英語 queynte、quoynte,源自盎格魯-諾曼語 cointe、queinte和古法語 cointe (“聪明的”),源自拉丁語 cognitus,cognōscō (“知道”)的过去分词。
形容词
[编辑]quaint (比較級 quainter,最高級 quaintest)
- (棄用) 狡猾的,精明的 (13-19世纪)
- (棄用) 精妙的,巧妙的 (14-19世纪)
- 1667,John Milton,“Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books,London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […],London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […] 。
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- (現方言) 奇怪的 (自14世纪)
- 1596,埃德蒙·斯宾塞,“Book IV, Canto IV”, in 仙后(The Faerie Qveene . […]),London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight,源自whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride […] 。
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- 1924年11月17日,Time:
- What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration.
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- (棄用) 过度细致的,苛求的 (15-19世纪)
- 近義詞:fastidious
- 1590,埃德蒙·斯宾塞,“Book III, Canto VII”, in 仙后(The Faerie Qveene . […]),London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon […] 。
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- 奇怪而有趣的;古老的,古色古香的 (自18世纪)
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- 1957,Claire Rothrock,Milton Yakus,Allan Jeffrey (作曲作詞), “Old Cape Cod”, 演出者 Patti Page:
- If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, / Quaint little villages here and there, / You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.
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- 2011年1月31日,Ian Sample,The Guardian:
- The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline.
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近义词
[编辑]- (苛求的): 参见Thesaurus:fastidious
衍生词汇
[编辑]词源 2
[编辑]quim的变体,可能是为了委婉。
名词
[编辑]quaint (複數 quaints)
- (古舊) 女阴 (自14世纪)
- 2003,Peter Ackroyd,The Clerkenwell Tales,頁 9:
- The rest looked on, horrified, as Clarice trussed up her habit and in open view placed her hand within her queynte crying, ‘The first house of Sunday belongs to the sun, and the second to Venus.’
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异序词
[编辑]中古英语
[编辑]形容词
[编辑]quaint
- queynte的另一種寫法