breakbone

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Breakbone fever. uncountable
    — All felt that their safety was in his hands and that his careful watch and strict enforcement of the quarantine would result in our exemption from the scourge. He was obeyed implicitly, and for a time we escaped the fever, but the "breakbone" singled us out one by one, and several times alarming symptoms of the dreaded yellow fever appeared.
  2. A chicken's wishbone. US,countable,dialectal
    — breakbone A chicken's wishbone; also called the breaking bone or pulleybone.
形容词 adj.
  1. Violent; rough and painful.
    — Near-synonym: backbreaking

词形变化

breakbones plural more breakbone comparative most breakbone superlative

词汇关系

相关词
Bonebrake Brisbane

词源

词源 1
From break + bone.
词源 2
From break + bone.
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