liar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlaɪ.ə/    美 /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who tells a lie; especially, a person who frequently lies.
    — He simply said, "We know, the Big Satan is a big liar."
  2. A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week. obsolete
    — The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with making clean the Ship within board, but without.

词形变化

liars plural lyar alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
bluffer bullshitter contradictor deceiver fabricator fabulist falsifier fibber goofer gossiper nonsenser red flagger storyteller tall tale teller
衍生词
barefaced liar Bliar liar dice liar liar pants on fire liar loan liar paradox liar's dividend nonliar pathological liar the devil is a liar

词源

Inherited from Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) + *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie + -ar. More at lie.
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