taint

名词 n. 动词 v. 缩写
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
  2. The perineum. US,slang,vulgar
    — Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint)
  3. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
    — This taint he follow'd with his sword, drawn from a silver sheath, Which lifting high, he struck his helm full where his plume did stand, On which it piecemeal brake, and fell from his unhappy hand.
  4. A tinge, trace or touch.
    — There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
  5. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
  6. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
  7. Tincture; hue; colour. obsolete
  8. Infection; corruption; deprivation. obsolete
    — A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement.
  9. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
    — Using Apache version 1.3.29 and Perl version 5.8.2, we tracked the following sequence of taints […]
动词 v.
  1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. transitive
    — His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
  2. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. transitive
    — Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint, and bravely.
  3. To spoil (food) by contamination. transitive
  4. To thrust ineffectually with a lance. intransitive
  5. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. intransitive
    — I cannot taint with fear.
  6. To be affected with incipient putrefaction. intransitive
    — Meat soon taints in warm weather.
  7. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. transitive
  8. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it. Australia,transitive
缩写
  1. Alternative spelling of 'taint. alt-of,alternative,contraction

词形变化

taints plural taints present,singular,third-person tainting participle,present tainted participle,past tainted past taints plural taints present,singular,third-person tainting participle,present tainted participle,past tainted past taints plural

词汇关系

衍生词
boar taint cork taint taintable tainter taintless taintproof untaint untainting
相关词
tainture

词源

词源 1
From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.
词源 2
From Middle English taynt, aphetic form of attaynt, atteynt, from Old French atteinte (“a blow, stroke”). Compare with attaint.
词源 3
Reportedly from the phrase “'tain't your balls and 'tain't your ass”. Ascribed to E.E. Landy's Underground Dict. (1972) is the following explanation: ‘'taint their ass and 'taint their pussy.’
词源 4
Contraction of it + ain't.
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