beclap

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.
    — He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.
  2. To clap for; to applaud.
    — No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.

词形变化

beclaps present,singular,third-person beclapping participle,present beclapped participle,past beclapped past beclapp alternative,obsolete beclaps present,singular,third-person beclapping participle,present beclapped participle,past beclapped past beclapp alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English biclappen (“to grasp, insnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly”). By surface analysis, be- + clap.
词源 2
From be- + clap.
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