英语词汇“Quakers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Quakers

释义

Quaker /kwāˈkər/

noun

One of the Religious Society of Friends, founded by George Fox (1624–91)
A dummy cannon (also called Quaker gun)

adjective

Of Quakers
Of Philadelphia (‘the Quaker city’, because founded by William Penn (1644–1718), Quaker) (US)

ORIGIN: Nickname (not adopted by themselves, and earlier applied to another sect) given them by Justice Bennet at Derby, because Fox told them to quake at the word of the Lord

Quāˈkerdom noun

Quāˈkeress noun

Quāˈkerish or Quāˈkerly adjective

Like a Quaker

Quāˈkerism noun

Quāˈker-bird noun

The sooty albatross

Quāˈker-buttons plural noun

The round seeds of nux vomica

Quāˈker-colour noun

A grey or dull-brown colour

quake /kwāk/

intransitive verb

To quiver or vibrate
To tremble, esp with cold or fear

transitive verb

To cause to tremble (Shakespeare)
To cause to vibrate

noun

A tremor
An earthquake
A shudder

ORIGIN: OE cwacian; perh related to quick

quāˈker noun

quāˈkiness noun

quāˈking noun

quāˈkingly adverb

quāˈky adjective

Shaky

quaking ash noun

The aspen

quāˈking-grass noun

A moorland grass of the genus Briza, with pendulous, panicled, tremulous spikelets

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