bodkin: [14] A bodkin was originally a small dagger, and only in the 18th century did it develop the perhaps more familiar sense ‘long blunt needle’. Initially it was a three-syllable word, spelled boidekyn, and its origins are mysterious. Most speculation has centred on Celtic as a source. Welsh bidog ‘dagger’ being cited (the -kin is no doubt a diminutive suffix).
bodkin (n.)
late 14c., boydekin, of unknown origin. The ending suggests a diminutive formation, and Celtic has been suggested as the source of the root.
雙語例句
1. The train was so crowded that I had to sit bodkin.
火車里很擠,所以我只好擠坐在兩個人中間.
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2. When he himself might hisquietus make With a bare bodkin?
而這時完全可以了結自己,用一柄鋒利的匕首?
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3. He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.
他個子太大了,無法擠在你我之間坐下.
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4. Bodkin: used for threading ribbon and elastic through a tunnel or casing.