downer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdaʊnə/    美 /ˈdaʊnɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A negative drug trip. slang
    — Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.
  2. A sixpence. UK,obsolete,slang
    — The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
  3. Any drug that has depressant qualities. slang
    — Eye Girl is very moody. She is always zooted up on some really foul combination of uppers and downers and Rollerblading. Her bouts of Rollerblading seem to coincide with fights with Eye Guy.
  4. Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. slang
    — You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.
  5. A livestock animal that has collapsed.
    — The ten-dollar bill was for eating money and the prod pole to be used when the train stopped for water in getting "downers" back on their feet.
  6. A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
    — In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.

词形变化

downers plural downers plural

词汇关系

近义词
killjoy spoilsport
相关词
Debbie Downer Far-Downer sit-downer

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English down
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 downer
From down + -er.
词源 2
Perhaps related to tanner (“sixpence”).
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