epithet

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishepithetep‧i‧thet /ˈepəθet/ noun [countable] DESCRIBEa word or short phrase used to describe someone, especially when praising them or saying something unpleasant about them He hardly deserves the epithet ‘fascist’.Examples from the Corpusepithet• She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.• The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.• According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.• Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns.• Bias in nouns does not stop with epithets.Origin epithet (1500-1600) Latin epitheton, from Greek, from epitithenai “to put on, add”

单词	epithet
释义	epithet From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishepithetep‧i‧thet /ˈepəθet/ noun [countable] DESCRIBEa word or short phrase used to describe someone, especially when praising them or saying something unpleasant about them He hardly deserves the epithet ‘fascist’.Examples from the Corpusepithet• She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.• The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.• According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.• Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns.• Bias in nouns does not stop with epithets.Origin epithet (1500-1600) Latin epitheton, from Greek, from epitithenai “to put on, add”
随便看	lesser/ordinary/mere mortals lesserknown Lessing Lessing, Doris lesson lessor lessour lest Lester let let let let (something ↔) loose let alone let alone let alone let be let bygones be bygones let do let do let do let down let drift let drop let equal