peach

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. countable
    — I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
  2. A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. Cornwall,obsolete,uncountable
    — Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.
  3. Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. countable,uncountable
    — [A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]
  4. A light yellow-red colour. uncountable
    — To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
  5. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. countable,informal
    — How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
  6. Buttock or bottom. countable,often,plural,uncountable
    — Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches
动词 v.
  1. To inform on someone; turn informer. intransitive,obsolete
    — If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
  2. To inform against. obsolete,transitive
    — Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
    — Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
    — 'That'll be just peach with me.'

词形变化

peaches plural more peach comparative most peach superlative peaches present,singular,third-person peaching participle,present peached participle,past peached past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠pārsa⁠/)bor.
Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor.
Late Latin Persa
Late Latin persicus
Late Latin persicum
Late Latin persica
Vulgar Latin *pessica
Old French peschebor.
Middle English peche
English peach
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
词源 2
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
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