单词 | bald |
释义 | bald adj.   1. (of a person) with the scalp wholly or partly lacking hair.   2. (of an animal, plant, etc.) not covered by the usual hair, feathers, leaves, etc.   3. colloq. with the surface worn away (a bald tyre).   4. a blunt, unelaborated (a bald statement). b undisguised (the bald effrontery).   5. meagre or dull (a bald style).   6. marked with white, esp. on the face (a bald horse). Phrases and idioms bald eagle a white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), used as the emblem of the United States. Derivatives balding adj. (in senses 1-3). baldish adj. baldly adv. (in sense 4). baldness n. Etymology: ME ballede, orig. 'having a white blaze', prob. f. an OE root ball- 'white patch' |
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