zot

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An anteater. US,slang
  2. A black person. South-Africa,Zimbabwe,derogatory,ethnic,offensive
    — Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property?
动词 v.
  1. To zap, kill, or destroy. slang,transitive
    — I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.
感叹词 intj.
  1. The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning. US

词形变化

zots present,singular,third-person zotting participle,present zotted participle,past zotted past zots plural zots plural

词源

词源 1
A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.
词源 2
Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts.
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