grimalkin
英 [gr?'m?lk?n; -'m??l-]
美
- n. 貓（特指老母貓）；惡毒的老婦，老刁婦
英文詞源
- grimalkin (n.)
- name given to a cat, 1620s, as in, or from, Shakespeare's Gray-Malkin, in "Macbeth" (1605), hence any cat, especially an old she-cat; from gray (adj.) + Malkin, diminutive of fem. proper name Matilda or Maud.
雙語例句
- 1. On one of these I stretched myself,and Grimalkin mounted the other.
- 我躺在一條凳子上，老母貓跳上了另一條。
來自辭典例句
