leaky

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having leaks; not fully sealed.
    — The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
  2. Tending to leak secrets or information.
    — The spooks' argument against this is that the secret service would become leaky and demoralised […]

词形变化

leakier comparative leakiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
leakily leakiness leaky abstraction leaky brain syndrome leaky bucket leaky gut syndrome leaky weir nonleaky unleaky

词源

Likely a normalisation ( + -y) of earlier leak, leake, leke (“leaky”, adjective), from Middle English leke (“leaky”), from Old English hlec, *lec (“having cracks or rents; leaky”), from Proto-Germanic *lekaz (“leaking; leaky”). By surface analysis, leak + -y. Cognate with Scots lek, leck (“leaky”), Saterland Frisian läk (“leaky”), Dutch lek (“leaky”), German Low German leck (“leaky”), German leck (“leaky”), Swedish läck (“leaky”), Icelandic lekur (“leaky”).
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