pitcher

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/|[ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə]    美 /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/|[ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who pitches (in any sense) anything
    — A tent pitcher
  2. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
    — At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
  4. The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
    — A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
  5. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
  6. A drug dealer. slang
    — To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
  7. One who puts counterfeit money into circulation. UK,obsolete,slang
    — To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
  8. The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men. US,colloquial
  9. A sort of crowbar for digging. obsolete
  10. One who makes a pitch or proposal.
    — The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
  11. A person who sells anything in the streets. UK,obsolete,slang

词形变化

pitchers plural pitchers plural pitchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fly-pitcher nonpitcher pitchered pitcherlike relief pitcher starting pitcher switch pitcher Charley-pitcher little pitcher little pitchers have big ears pitcher-bawd pitcherful pitcher plant pitcher sage rinse-pitcher the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
相关词
flagon

词源

词源 1
From pitch + -er.
词源 2
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
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