stag
名词 n.
动词 v.
副词 adv.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
— The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
- A young horse (colt or filly).
- A male turkey: a turkeycock.
- A romping girl; a tomboy.
- An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
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An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
— a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar
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A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
— The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.
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An informer.
— We had two disturbers of the harmony of the ship; I mean two stags or informers, one named Robert Wilson, the other John Hewit, from the north of Ireland.
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Guard duty.
— Between shifts on stag or manning the radio, we grabbed a few hours sleep.
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A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
— Members of the genus Pasimachus […] can be confused with stag beetles […] but stags have elbowed antennae.
- The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
动词 v.
- To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
- To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
副词 adv.
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Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
— My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
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词源 1
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
词源 2
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
词源 3
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Doublet of steg (“gander”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
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