cockchafer: [18] Etymologically, cockchafer (a medium-sized beetle) is probably a ‘large gnawer’. The second part of the word, which goes back to Old English times (ceafor), can be traced to a prehistoric base *kab- ‘gnaw’, source also of English jowl. The first element, cock, may be an allusion to the species’ greater size in relation to other chafers. => jowl
实用例句
1. If so, he would at any rate be able to deliver the cockchafer speech.
若是那样, 他无论如何也要把那一番骂人的话发泄出来.
来自辞典例句
2. Left with nothing to say, Dixon realized how wild a notion the cockchafer speech had been.
狄克逊感到无话可说, 同时意识到那个想骂人的念头是多么不切合实际.
来自辞典例句
3. Suddenly a GREat cockchafer buzzed along . Alas!
