grimalkin

• n. 猫（特指老母猫）；恶毒的老妇，老刁妇

英文词源

grimalkin (n.)

name given to a cat, 1620s, as in, or from, Shakespeare's Gray-Malkin, in "Macbeth" (1605), hence any cat, especially an old she-cat; from gray (adj.) + Malkin, diminutive of fem. proper name Matilda or Maud.

双语例句

1. On one of these I stretched myself,and Grimalkin mounted the other.

我躺在一条凳子上，老母猫跳上了另一条。

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