toco

名词 n.
/ˈtəʊ.kəʊ/    /ˈtoʊ.koʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Clipping of tocodynamometer. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  2. Corporal punishment; chastisement; beatings. British,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — The School leaders come up furious, and administer toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand; they may well be angry, for it is all Lombard-street to a china orange that the School-house kick a goal with the ball touched in such a good place.
  3. Synonym of toco toucan
    — The Toco Toucan is surely among the most striking of the toucans, with its black-and-white body and enormous yellow-orange bill. [...] Tocos make loud rattling or clacking sounds with their bills.
  4. Crateva tapia, a fruit tree of South and Central America.

词形变化

tocos plural toko alternative tocos plural tocos plural

词源

词源 1
Shortening.
词源 2
From Hindi ठोको (ṭhoko), second-person plural imperative form of ठोकना (ṭhoknā, “to strike, hit, beat”), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀤𑀺 (*ṭhokkadi), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀞𑁄𑀓𑀢𑀺 (*ṭhokati).
词源 3
From taxonomic name Ramphastos toco.
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