breech

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. attributive,countable,historical,in-plural,uncountable
    — 'Lat be,' quod he, ‘it shal nat be, so theech! Thou woldest make me kisse thyn old breech, And swere it were a relik of a seint,
  2. The buttocks or backside. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past […]
  3. The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber. countable,uncountable
  4. The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat. countable,uncountable
  5. A breech birth. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony). dated,transitive
    — […] it occurred before I was breeched, and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
  2. To beat or spank on the buttocks. dated,transitive
  3. To fit or furnish with a breech. transitive
    — to breech a gun
  4. To fasten with breeching. transitive
  5. To cover as if with breeches. obsolete,poetic,transitive
    — Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.
形容词 adj.
  1. Born, or having been born, breech. not-comparable
副词 adv.
  1. With the hips coming out before the head. not-comparable

词形变化

breeches plural breeches present,singular,third-person breeching participle,present breeched participle,past breeched past

词汇关系

衍生词
bear's breech bear's-breech be-breeched breechblock breech-cloth breechcloth breechclout breech delivery breech face breechless breechloader breech-loader breech-loading breechloading breech pin breech screw nonbreech quack-breech quake-breech quakebreech rod for one's breech unbreech wipe-breech
相关词
breeches

词源

词源 1
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
词源 2
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
词源 3
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
词源 4
From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.
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