cropper

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
    — But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
  2. A breed of domestic pigeon with large crop.
  3. A person who nurtures and gathers a crop.
  4. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
  5. A variety of plant producing a good harvest.
    — The mango tree cannot be regarded as a reliable cropper.

词形变化

croppers plural croppers plural croppers plural croppers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
heathcropper

词源

词源 1
See come a cropper.
词源 2
From crop + -er, in reference to a bird's crop.
词源 3
From crop + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational suffix), in reference to agricultural crops.
词源 4
From crop + -er, from the verb.
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