单词 | peach |
释义 | peach 2 (pēch) v. peached, peach·ing, peach·es v.intr. To inform on someone; turn informer: "Middle-level bureaucrats cravenly peach on their bosses [when] one of them does something the tiniest bit illegal" (National Observer). v.tr. To inform against: "He has peached me and all the others, to save his life" (Daniel Defoe). [Middle English pechen, from apechen, to accuse (probably from Anglo-Norman *anpecher, from Late Latin impedicāre, to entangle; see IMPEACH) and from empechen, to accuse; see IMPEACH.] |
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