garnish

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɑːnɪʃ/|[ˈɡɑːnɪʃ]    美 /ˈɡäːnɪʃ/|[ˈɡäːnɪʃ]|/ˈɡɐːnɪʃ/|[ˈɡɐ̞ːnɪʃ]|/ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ/|[ˈɡɑɹnɪʃ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. countable,uncountable
  2. Pewter vessels in general. countable,uncountable
    — The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish.
  3. Something added for embellishment. countable,uncountable
    — 1718, Matthew Prior, Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 1, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 333, First Poets, all the World agrees, Write half to profit, half to please Matter and figure They produce; For Garnish This, and That for Use;
  4. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative. countable,uncountable
    — So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
  5. Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. countable,uncountable
  6. Fetters. countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  7. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners. historical,slang,uncountable
    — 1699, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, London: W. Hawes et al., Garnish money, what is customarily spent among the Prisoners at first coming in.
  8. Cash. US,countable,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
    — And all within with flowres was garnished,
  2. To ornament with something placed around it.
    — a dish garnished with a sprig/spray of parsley
  3. To furnish; to supply. archaic
    — By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
  4. To fit with fetters; to fetter. archaic,slang
  5. To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
  6. To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
    — When the editorial board of Fire met again, we did not plan a new issue, but emptied our pockets to help poor Thurman whose wages were being garnished weekly because he had signed for the printer’s bills.

词形变化

garnishes present,singular,third-person garnishing participle,present garnished participle,past garnished past garnishes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
disgarnish garnishable garnishee garnisher garnishment garnishor garnishry regarnish ungarnish all garnish and no meat garnish bolt
相关词
garment garnison garniture

词源

词源 1
From Middle English garnysshen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnijan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warnōn (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.
词源 2
From Middle English garnysshen, from Old French garniss-, stem of certain forms of the verb garnir, guarnir, warnir (“to provide, furnish, avert, defend, warn, fortify, garnish”), from a conflation of Old Frankish *warnijan (“to refuse, deny”) and *warnōn (“warn, protect, prepare, beware, guard oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *warnijaną (“to worry, care, heed”) and Proto-Germanic *warnōną (“to warn”); both from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to defend, protect, cover”). Cognate with Old English wiernan (“to withhold, be sparing of, deny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid, prevent from, avert”) and warnian (“to warn, caution, take warning, take heed, guard oneself against, deny”). More at warn.
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