maypole

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
    — How would you like the maypole decorated?
  2. A very tall girl or young lady. idiomatic
  3. A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.
    — The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.
  4. A penis, especially a large one. euphemistic
    — and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.
    Fanny Hill
动词 v.
  1. To dance or spin in a circle around something.
    — Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.

词形变化

maypoles plural may-pole alternative maypoles present,singular,third-person maypoling participle,present maypoled participle,past maypoled past may-pole alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
mayhole maypole dancer maypoler

词源

词源 1
Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.
词源 2
Compound of May + pole, so called in reference to its use on May Day.
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