spinney

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds. UK
    — “H'm !" he said, "so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
  2. Synonym of spinnaker.

词形变化

spinneys plural spinny alternative spinneys plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spenné, from Middle French espinoye (“thorny thicket”), espinaye, from Latin spīnētum (“thorny thicket”), from Latin spīna (“thorn”).
词源 2
Clipping of spinnaker + -y.
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