cudgel

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

cudgels

1.
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.
2.
(figuratively)(figurative) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

cudgels

V_ing/Gerund

cudgeling

V_ed/pp

cudgellingcudgeled

1.
To strike with a cudgel.
The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
2.
To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

becudgeltake up the cudgel forclub singlestick

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (a large stick, cudgel), from *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (a knobbed instrument), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (cog, swelling), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (swelling, bow), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (to bow, bend, arch, curve), equivalent to cog + --el. Cognate with coghele.