commode

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  3. A chair containing a chamber pot.
    — Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.
  4. A toilet. South-Asia,US,euphemistic
  5. A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. historical
    — Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]

词形变化

commodes plural

词汇关系

相关词
accommodation commodious discommode incommode air commode bidet

词源

Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
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