catcher

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkæt͡ʃə/    美 /ˈkæt͡ʃəɹ/|/ˈkɛt͡ʃ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that catches.
  2. The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
    — Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.
  3. The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men. US,colloquial
  4. A wrestler. archaic
  5. The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
  6. Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”) abbreviation,alt-of

词形变化

catchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
baby-catcher babycatcher beau-catcher birdcatcher bird-catcher tree bluff catcher boot catcher catcatcher catcher interference catcher-upper caterpillar catcher cony-catcher cootie catcher cowcatcher cow catcher cum-catcher cum catcher dogcatcher dog-catcher dreamcatcher dream catcher eye-catcher eyecatcher fartcatcher fishcatcher flack-catcher flack catcher flak-catcher flak catcher fly-catcher flycatcher gamecatcher gnatcatcher grass catcher key catcher keycatcher mailcatcher man catcher molecatcher oyster-catcher oystercatcher podcatcher ratcatcher slavecatcher spear catcher spider-catcher spycatcher stonecatcher suncatcher tear catcher time-catcher torpedo catcher whale catcher windcatcher

词源

Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin captus
Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
Vulgar Latin -io
Vulgar Latin *captiāre
Old French chacierbor.
Anglo-Norman cachierbor.
Middle English cacchen
English catch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English catcher
From catch + -er.
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