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hibachi (n.)[hibachi 词源字典]: 1863, from Japanese hibachi "firepot," from hi "fire" + bachi, hachi "bowl, pot," which Watkins derives ultimately from Sanskrit patram "cup, bowl."[hibachi etymology, hibachi origin, 英语词源]
hibernacle (n.): "winter residence," 1708, from Latin hibernaculum "winter residence, winter quarters," related to hibernare "to winter" (see hibernation) with instrumentive suffix -culum. Related: Hibernacular.
hibernal (adj.): 1620s, from Latin hibernalis "wintry," from hibernus "of winter," from hiems "winter" (see hibernation).
hibernate (v.): 1802, probably a back-formation from hibernation. Related: Hibernated; hibernating.
hibernation (n.): 1660s, from Latin hibernationem (nominative hibernatio) "the action of passing the winter," noun of action from past participle stem of hibernare "to winter, pass the winter, occupy winter quarters;" related to hiems "winter," from PIE *gheim- "snow, winter" (cognates: Sanskrit heman "in winter," Hittite gimmanza, Greek kheima, Old Church Slavonic zima, Lithuanian žiema "winter").
Hibernia: Roman name for Ireland, from Old Celtic *Iveriu "Ireland" (see Irish). Form altered in Latin as though it meant "land of winter" (see hibernation).
Hibernian: 1630s (adj.), 1709 (n.); see Hibernia + -ian. Related: Hibernianism.
hibiscus (n.): 1706, from Latin hibiscum, later hibiscus, "marshmallow plant," of unknown origin, perhaps from Gaulish.
hic: imitation of the sound of hiccuping, attested by 1883 (see hiccup).
hic et nunc: Latin, literally "here and now," from demonstrative pronominal adjective of place hic "here" + nunc (see now).
hic jacet: Latin, hic iacet, "here lies," commonly the first words of Latin epitaphs; from demonstrative pronominal adjective of place hic "here" + iacet "it lies," from iacere "to lie, rest," related to iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)).
hiccough: 1620s, variant of hiccup (q.v.) by mistaken association with cough.
hiccup (n.): 1570s, hickop, earlier hicket, hyckock, "a word meant to imitate the sound produced by the convulsion of the diaphragm" [Abram Smythe Farmer, "Folk-Etymology," London, 1882]. Compare French hoquet, Danish hikke, etc. Modern spelling first recorded 1788; An Old English word for it was ælfsogoða, so called because hiccups were thought to be caused by elves.
hiccup (v.): 1580s; see hiccup (n.).
hiccups (n.): a bout of hiccupping, by 1723; see hiccup (n.). This often also was called hiccup or the hiccup. An earlier word for it (noun and verb) was yex, imitative, from Old English gesca, geosca.
hick (n.): late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (see rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]
hickey (n.): see hickie.
hickie (n.): "love bite; mark on skin made by biting or sucking during foreplay or sex," 1934; earlier "pimple, skin lesion" (c. 1915); perhaps a sense extension and spelling variation from earlier word meaning "small gadget, device; any unspecified object" (1909, see doohickey, still used in this sense).
hickory (n.): 1670s, American English, from Algonquian (perhaps Powhatan), shortening of pockerchicory or a similar name for this species of walnut. Old Hickory as the nickname of U.S. politician Andrew Jackson is first recorded 1827.
hickscorner (n.): "libertine scoffer at religion and the religious," c. 1530, from the name of the character in a work of that name printed c. 1512 by Wynkyn de Worde; from Hick, the common masc. nickname, + scorner.