leech

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
    — The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
  2. A physician. archaic
    — Many skillful leeches him abide to salve his hurts.
  3. The vertical edge of a square sail.
    — To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.
  4. A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion. figuratively
    — 'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
  5. A healer. Germanic
    — Their functions are threefold, those of the medicine-man (the leech, or healer by supernatural means); of the soothsayer (the prophet through communion with the invisible world); and of the priest, especially in his capacity as exorcist
  6. The aft edge of a triangular sail.
    — Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib.
  7. A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum. dated
动词 v.
  1. To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient. literally,transitive
    — The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
  2. To treat, cure or heal. archaic,rare
    — 1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.
  3. To drain (resources) without giving back. figuratively,transitive
    — Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down

词形变化

leeches plural leeches present,singular,third-person leeching participle,present leeched participle,past leeched past leeches plural leeches present,singular,third-person leeching participle,present leeched participle,past leeched past leeches plural

词汇关系

近义词
sponger bloodsucker vampire
衍生词
Amazon giant leech green leech land-leech leechlike leechy turtle leech water-leech horse-leech horse leech leecher cowleech leechbook leechcraft leechdom leechery leech-finger leech line leechline
相关词
foot luff

词源

词源 1
From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).
词源 2
From Middle English leche (“physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), from Proto-West Germanic *lākī, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz (“doctor”), of disputed origin, but usually thought to be connected with Proto-Celtic (compare Old Irish líaig (“doctor, physician”)); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lētza (“physician”), Old Saxon lāki (“physician”), Old High German lāhhi (“doctor, healer”), Danish læge (“doctor, surgeon”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis, “physician”). Slavic words such as Serbo-Croatian ljèkār, Polish lekarz (“physician, doctor”) are usually considered to be borrowings from Germanic.
词源 3
From Middle English lechen (“to cure, heal, treat”), from Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”). Compare Swedish läka (“to heal”).
词源 4
From Middle English lek, leche, lyche, from Old Norse lík (“leechline”), from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (compare West Frisian lyk (“band”), Dutch lijk (“boltrope”), Middle High German geleich (“joint, limb”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ‘to bind’ (compare Latin ligō (“tie, bind”), Ukrainian нали́гати (nalýhaty, “to bridle, fetter”), Albanian lidh (“to bind”), Hittite link- (caus. linganu-) ‘to swear’ (with -n- infix).
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