stye

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.
    — have a stye
  2. Alternative form of sty (“shelter for pigs”). alt-of,alternative
    — 1912, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Tod This house was something between a cave, a prison, and a tumble-down pig-stye.

词形变化

styes plural styes plural

词源

First recorded in the 17th century; probably a back-formation from Middle English styanye (first recorded in the 15th century), which in turn comes from Old English stīgend (“a small tumour on the edge of the eyelid, stye”), from the verb stīgan (“to climb, ascend, rise”) + Middle English eie (“eye”). Equivalent to sty + eye.
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