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单词 feather
释义

feather

noun
 
/ˈfeðə(r)/
/ˈfeðər/
Idioms
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    one of the many soft light parts covering a bird’s body
    • a peacock feather
    • tail/flight/wing feathers
    • a feather pillow (= one containing feathers)
    Extra Examples
    • I had to pluck the dead hen's feathers.
    • Its feathers were ruffled by the chill breeze.
    • The chicks have grown their adult feathers.
    • The owl fluffed out its feathers.
    • a fledgling with new flight feathers
    • a swan preening its feathers
    • the downy feathers on the duck's breast
    Topics Birdsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • breast
    • neck
    • tail
    verb + feather
    • preen
    • fluff
    • fluff out
    feather + noun
    • bed
    • mattress
    • pillow
    phrases
    • as light as a feather
    See full entry
    Word OriginOld English fether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veer and German Feder, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit patra ‘wing’, Latin penna ‘feather’, and Greek pteron, pterux ‘wing’.
Idioms
birds of a feather (flock together)
  1. (saying) people of the same sort (are found together)
a feather in your cap
  1. an action that you can be proud of
ruffle somebody’s/a few feathers
  1. (informal) to annoy or upset somebody or a group of people
    • The senator's speech ruffled a few feathers in the business world.
smooth (somebody’s) ruffled feathers
  1. to make somebody feel less angry or offended
you could have knocked me down with a feather
  1. (informal) used to express surprise

feather

verb
/ˈfeðə(r)/
/ˈfeðər/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they feather
/ˈfeðə(r)/
/ˈfeðər/
he / she / it feathers
/ˈfeðəz/
/ˈfeðərz/
past simple feathered
/ˈfeðəd/
/ˈfeðərd/
past participle feathered
/ˈfeðəd/
/ˈfeðərd/
-ing form feathering
/ˈfeðərɪŋ/
/ˈfeðərɪŋ/
Idioms
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Idioms
feather your (own) nest
  1. to make yourself richer, especially at somebody else's expense, by spending money on yourself that should be spent on somebody/something else
tar and feather somebody
  1. to put tar on somebody then cover them with feathers, as a punishment
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