riddle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
    — Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
  2. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  3. A curtain; bedcurtain. obsolete
  4. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
  5. A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  6. One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
动词 v.
  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. intransitive
  2. To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
    — You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
  3. To plait. obsolete,transitive
  4. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question. transitive
    — Riddle me this.
  5. To fill with holes like a riddle.
    — The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.
  6. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening). figuratively
    — Your argument is riddled with errors.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
riddle canon riddlelike riddle me ree riddle me this riddler riddlesome riddle stick riddle wrapped in an enigma world riddle riddlee riddlingly unriddle unriddleable

词源

词源 1
From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādislī (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) + -le. Akin to Old English rǣdan (“to read, advise, interpret”). Cognate with Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel.
词源 2
From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hrīder, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.
词源 3
From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German rīdan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau.
词源 4
From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).
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