copycat

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /kɑpiˈkæt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who imitates or plagiarizes the work of others. derogatory,informal
    — And in it all they are merely copy-cats—servile followers of the aristocratic creed, but without the genuine prestige of the old-time nobilities.
  2. A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has recently been committed by someone else.
    — a copycat strangler
动词 v.
  1. To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way. transitive
    — Because beasts don't talk with words, they talk with sounds, and I copycatted my language from beasts and birds[…]
形容词 adj.
  1. Imitative; unoriginal.
    — copycat crime

词形变化

copycats plural copy cat alternative copy-cat alternative more copycat comparative most copycat superlative copy cat alternative copy-cat alternative copycats present,singular,third-person copycatting participle,present copycatted participle,past copycatted past copy cat alternative copy-cat alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
copycatism copycatter

词源

词源 1
Originally American English, from copy + cat (“a former derogatory term for a person”).
词源 2
Originally American English, from copy + cat (“a former derogatory term for a person”).
词源 3
Originally American English, from copy + cat (“a former derogatory term for a person”).
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