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单词 brach
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brachn.

Brit. /bratʃ/, U.S. /brætʃ/
Forms: Middle English plural braches, brachez, Middle English bracke, brasche, 1500s braach, bratche, 1600s bratch, 1500s–1600s brache, 1500s– brach.
Etymology: Middle English braches plural, probably < Old French brachès, brachez, plural of brachet (medieval Latin brachētus), diminutive of brac (object case bracon), a common Romanic word (Provençal brac, bracon, Italian bracco, Spanish braco, medieval Latin bracco, -ōnem), < Old High German bracco (Middle High German bracke) a hound hunting by scent. From this plural braches was apparently educed an English singular brache, brach. (French braque masculine is a modern form, probably < Italian or Middle High German.)
archaic.
a. A kind of hound which hunts by scent; in later English use, always feminine, and extended to any kind of hound; a bitch-hound.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > female
brachc1400
brachetc1400
hound-brach1688
lady1834
hound-bitch-
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > that hunts by scent
brachc1400
brachetc1400
draught-hound1598
draught-dog1656
line-hunter1851
drag-hound1884
bratchet-
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1563 Þe best of his brachez [MS reads bracheȝ].
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1142 Braches bayed þerfore, & breme noyse maked.
1467 Househ. Exp. 558 A ȝonge brasche of halfe ȝere holde.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 54 Theyr brackes retches and bloode houndes.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 131 A braach, to hunt and bring the game to his hand.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. T And so it is with this his bratche or bitch-foxe.
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1649) 27 When your Bratch is neere whelping..you shall separate her from other hounds.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 28 A Brach, is a mannerly name for all Hound-bitches.
1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 78 Many a brach, and many a hound Attend Llewellyn's horn.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. i. 63 We'll..pamper the brach till we make her a wolf.
1864 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxiii Let them take their braches and lie down.
b. figurative. A term of abuse. Cf. bitch n.1
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > female
visenagec1460
bitch-clout?a1475
harlot?c1500
tarleather1575
whipperginnie1593
brach1612
city wire1616
she-dog1624
cunt1663
faggot1722
son of a bitch1936
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B2v Away this Brach . View more context for this quotation
a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden iv. i. 56 in Five New Playes (1659) Thou greedy Brach.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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