double-u

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The name of the Latin script letter W/w.
  2. Alternative name of the Latin-script digraph ⟨UU⟩. alt-of,alternative,name
  3. The WC; the toilet. euphemistic
    — She would try the front door, and try the back door, and look in the windows; and once she even looked in the double-u.

词形变化

double-ues plural double-u's plural double U alternative double-U alternative double you alternative double-you alternative doubleyou alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
dubya

词源

Inherited from Middle English doble W, in reference to the letter's origins as a ligature of two Us or Vs (V originally being a typographical variant of U).
The failure of the sequence /bljuː/ to simplify in this word's bisyllabic pronunciation (as in blue) is doubtlessly due to the letter U's name. For colloquial pronunciations without /l/, compare Straya.
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