witch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wĭch

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events, particularly one with malicious motives.
    — He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.
  2. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
  3. A bitch. euphemistic
  4. A person who follows Wicca or similar New Age pagan beliefs.
    — To be considered a Witch of a particular tradition you will have to be initiated into that tradition by someone else within that tradition, after following their specific program of study.
  5. An ugly or unpleasant woman. derogatory,figuratively
    — I hate that old witch.
  6. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
  7. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
  8. A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  9. A storm petrel.
  10. Any of a number of flatfish of species:; Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, the witch flounder or Torbay sole, found in the North Atlantic.
  11. Any of a number of flatfish of species:; Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
  12. Any of a number of flatfish of species:; Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
  13. An Indomalayan butterfly, of Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
动词 v.
  1. To dowse for water. intransitive
    — And I told him there's a vein down there, I know 'caus I used to—uh, I went out here and witched one for this house, at the corner.
  2. To practise witchcraft. intransitive,obsolete
  3. To bewitch. transitive
    — She has witched the Queen's womb long ago, and witched the whole harvest.

词形变化

witches plural witches present,singular,third-person witching participle,present witched participle,past witched past witches present,singular,third-person witching participle,present witched participle,past witched past witches plural witches plural

词汇关系

近义词
magician ugly woman shrew white sole
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Old English wiċċe
Proto-Germanic *wikkōną
Proto-West Germanic *wikkōn
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Germanic *-ô
Proto-West Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *wikkō
Old English wiċċa
Middle English wicche
English witch
The noun is from Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“(female) witch; sorceress”) and wiċċa (“(male) witch; sorcerer; warlock”), deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell; to warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse; to divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; to separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit वि॒नक्ति॑ (vinákti, “to set apart; to separate out”). Possibly related to wicked; see that entry for more. The verb derives from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English wicchen, from Old English wiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk-. In the senses arising in Middle English and later probably aphetic from bewitch.
词源 3
Compare wick.
词源 4
Chosen for its euphemistic rhyme.
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