sandcorn

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grain of sand.
    — […] overflowing all with golden splendour, gilding mountains, trees, and grass, making all flowers glow in brilliant colours, throwing bright sparks upon each sandcorn, and causing golden waves to roll in the river of the plain.
  2. Anything causing irritation or discomfort. broadly,figuratively
    — It was the tradition of image-making which carried in its stream, as it were, those indispensable sandcorns of tasks.

词形变化

sandcorns plural

词源

From Middle English *sandcorn, from Old English sandcorn, from Proto-West Germanic *sandakorn, from Proto-Germanic *samdakurną, equivalent to sand + corn. Cognate with Dutch zandkoren, German Sandkorn, Swedish sandkorn, Icelandic sandkorn.
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