dretch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An idle wench; a slattern.
  2. A person slow in the execution of a job; a dawdler. Scotland,UK,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To vex; grill; trouble; oppress. obsolete,transitive
  2. To delay; linger; tarry. intransitive,obsolete
  3. To move slowly and heavily; dawdle; loiter. Scotland,UK,dialectal,intransitive

词形变化

dretches present,singular,third-person dretching participle,present dretched participle,past dretched past dretches present,singular,third-person dretching participle,present dretched participle,past dretched past draitch alternative,Scotland drich alternative,Scotland dretches plural draitch alternative,Scotland drich alternative,Scotland

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English dreċċan (“to vex, irritate, trouble, torment, torture, oppress, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to torment”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrag-, *dʰragʰ- (“to bother, torment”). Cognate with Russian раздража́ть (razdražátʹ, “to irritate”), Sanskrit द्राघते (drāghate, “to exert oneself, be tired, torment”).
词源 2
From Middle English dretchen, drecchen, drechen, from Old English *dreċċan (“to draw out, delay, linger”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *drakjaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- (“to pull, drag, scratch”). Cognate with Scots dratch, dretch (“to dawdle”), Dutch trekken (“to draw, pull, tear, pluck, trek”), German trecken (“to draw, trek”), Danish trække (“to draw, pull”), Norwegian dråk (“stripe”), Swedish dialectal drakig (“striped, streaked”), Icelandic rák (“streak”).
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