1. 1女兇手、女殺人犯

    A murderess is a woman who has murdered someone. The word is built in the old way: murder plus -ess, the ending that used to mark female. Though actually, many people now just say murderer for a man or a woman, because -ess can sound old-fashioned, or as if the woman's sex is the main point. You will still meet murderess in older books, in dramatic crime stories, and in headlines that want a strong, old tone.

core核心畫面

組成murder + -ess (the old feminine ending). From older English and French forms of the same idea.

同家族的字

  • murderthe base verb and noun
  • murdererthe same role, without marking sex

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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