minx
英[m??ks]
美[m??ks]
- n. 風騷女子；輕佻女子
中文詞源
minx 輕佻女孩
可能來自德語minsk,一個男人，像男人一樣的女人，詞源同man,mensch.后用于俚語潑婦，蕩婦，粗魯?shù)呐耍p佻的女孩。比較virago.
英文詞源
- minx (n.)
- 1540s, mynx "pet dog," later "a young, pert, wanton girl" [Johnson] (1590s), of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of minikin "girl, woman," from Middle Dutch minnekijn "darling, beloved," from minne "love" (see minnesinger) + -kijn, diminutive suffix. Klein's sources suggest the word is from Low German minsk "a man," also "an impudent woman," related to German Mensch (see mensch), which also has a sense in vulgar use of "wench, hussy, slut."
雙語例句
- 1. She can be a proper little minx when she wants to get her own way!
- 她有時為所欲為,要發(fā)起壞來可真是個十足的小壞蛋!
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