waterfunk

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is afraid to go into water; a hydrophobe. UK,colloquial,dated
    — We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves.

词形变化

waterfunks plural water-funk alternative water funk alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English funk
English waterfunk
Compound of water + funk (“a coward”).
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