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单词 peccadillo
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peccadillon.

Brit. /ˌpɛkəˈdɪləʊ/, U.S. /ˌpɛkəˈdɪloʊ/
Inflections: Plural peccadillos, peccadilloes.
Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s peccadilia, 1600s peckadilla, 1600s pickadilla, 1700s peccadilla.

β. 1600s pecadillo, 1600s peccadiglio, 1600s peccadilio, 1600s peccadillio, 1600s pecchadillo, 1600s picadilio, 1600s piccadillo, 1600s– peccadillo, 1700s pecadiglio, 1800s pickadillo.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Spanish pecadillo; Italian peccadiglio.
Etymology: Partly < Spanish pecadillo (first attested 1545–65, although probably earlier: compare peccadilian n.) < pecado sin ( < classical Latin peccātum error, moral lapse, in post-classical Latin also sin (Vetus Latina) < peccāre (see peccant adj. and n.) + -ātum -ate suffix1) + -illo , diminutive suffix (see -illa suffix), and partly < Italian peccadiglio (1534) < Spanish pecadillo (although this is apparently first attested later: see above). Compare earlier peccadilian n.In the 17th cent. in form peccadilia also occasionally as plural.
A minor fault or sin; a trivial offence.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed > an evil deed, fault, or offence > slight
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1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶iiij I omit as his peccadilia, how he nicknameth priests.
1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel viii. 205 The Spaniard is saide to account it but a Peccadillo or little fault.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs vi. 85 Lust appeares a peccadillio.
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. vi. 421 Those which they lookt upon as piccadillo sins.
1670 J. Bramston Autobiogr. 143 This is but a picadilio.
1708 R. Nelson Let. Hanger in C. F. Secretan Life (1860) 192 Never reckon an excess in drinking a small fault, a pecadiglio.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 221 The..amours of him whose peccadillo follies are the subject of universal ridicule.
1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) x. 356 This..noddling old commander..was forever informing the officer of the deck of every little pickadillo of the American prisoners.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. i. 24 He was a strict disciplinarian, and had often sternly reproved our juvenile failings and peccadillos.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque ii. 42 What the boy does almost proudly, as a manly peccadillo, the girl will shudder at as a debasing vice.
1955 Times 26 Aug. 3/3 The artful old man who hides his major offences behind a frank admission of peccadilloes.
1995 Scotsman 18 Oct. 12/6 The Seven Deadly Sins can be regarded these days as mere peccadillos.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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