Quaker

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkweɪkə/    美 /ˈkweɪkəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
    — The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
  2. A player of any game in the Quake series of first-person shooters.

词形变化

Quakers plural Quacker alternative quaker alternative Whaker alternative Quakers plural

词源

词源 1
From quake + -er; a name given to members of the Religious Society of Friends, supposedly by the magistrates Gervase Bennet and Nathaniel Barton, when George Fox "bade them tremble at the word of the Lord"; the term was previously applied to certain people who trembled or quaked during religious devotions.
词源 2
Quake + -er, but likely inspired by the original noun.
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