bodkin: [14] A bodkin was originally a small dagger, and only in the 18th century did it develop the perhaps more familiar sense ‘long blunt needle’. Initially it was a three-syllable word, spelled boidekyn, and its origins are mysterious. Most speculation has centred on Celtic as a source. Welsh bidog ‘dagger’ being cited (the -kin is no doubt a diminutive suffix).
bodkin (n.)
late 14c., boydekin, of unknown origin. The ending suggests a diminutive formation, and Celtic has been suggested as the source of the root.
双语例句
1. The train was so crowded that I had to sit bodkin.
火车里很挤,所以我只好挤坐在两个人中间.
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2. When he himself might hisquietus make With a bare bodkin?
而这时完全可以了结自己,用一柄锋利的匕首?
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3. He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.
他个子太大了,无法挤在你我之间坐下.
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4. Bodkin: used for threading ribbon and elastic through a tunnel or casing.
