worsted

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwʊs.tɪd/    美 /ˈwʊs.tɪd/|/ˈwɝ.stɪd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Yarn made from long strands of wool. countable,uncountable
    — An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.
  2. The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn. countable,uncountable
    — [T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of worst form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Defeated, overcome.
    — The worsted army fled in disarray.

词形变化

worsteds plural more worsted comparative most worsted superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
Berlin worsted

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English worstede, worsted, from Worstede (now Worstead; Old English *Wurϸestede), a town in Norfolk, England.
词源 2
Participle adjective of the verb worst.
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