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forgather    
vi. 聚会,偶然遇见

聚会,偶然遇见

forgather
v 1: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church
basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [synonym: {meet},
{gather}, {assemble}, {forgather}, {foregather}]

Forgather \For*gath"er\, v. i.
To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
[1913 Webster]

Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool.
--Wilson.
[1913 Webster]


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  • meaning - How did phobia ever come to mean hatred? - English Language . . .
    Phobia: (Etymonline): "irrational fear, horror, aversion," 1786, perhaps on model of similar use in French, abstracted from compounds in -phobia, from Greek -phobia, from phobos "fear, panic fear, terror, outward show of fear; object of fear or terror," originally "flight" (still the only sense in Homer), but it became the common word for "fear" via the notion of "panic, fright"
  • etymology - When was the word phobia coined? - English Language . . .
    The first quotation in the OED of phobia in English is from 1786 The suffix -phobia is from post-classical Latin -phobia, from Hellenistic Greek -ϕοβία, from ϕόβος (phobe) + ia suffix: First recorded in the Latin loan hydrophobia n : this is probably the model for subsequent English formations
  • etymology - Why homophobia and not sexualism or similar? - English . . .
    From the etymology homophobic by 1971, from homo- (2) + -phobia Related: Homophobe; homophobia (which is said to date from 1969) it points to the second meaning of homo, which is the slang version comb form meaning "homosexual," abstracted since early 20c from homosexual This can be read as a "phobia (fear) of homosexuals"
  • etymology - What is the story behind the word . . .
    Etymology From hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian , an extension of sesquipedalian with monstrum "monster" and a truncated, misspelled form of hippopotamus , intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared; combined with phobia
  • etymology - Is trypophobia a real word? - English Language Usage . . .
    Following my letter to the Oxford Word and Language Service on 12th May 2005, I have received a reply from Miss Margot Charlton of Ask Oxford - Oxford English Dictionary Due to the content of this letter, thank you Miss Charlton for your reply, the name of this phobia is now trypophobia instead of my previously suggested trypaphobia I quote
  • etymology - What is the origin of koumpounophobia? - English Language . . .
    Below is a passage from a blog site which explains its Greek roots: It comes from the modern Greek word for "to button," κουμπούνω, (koumpouno) which comes from the ancient Greek word for "bean" (κύαμος, kuamos), which makes sense, because the ancients didn't have buttons, but some buttons resemble beans, + πονέω (poneo), "to work hard "
  • etymology - How would you invent the word for fear of standing next to . . .
    -phobia is the ending for most of the fear words-krebbato-old Greek or -krebeto-modern will do for bed Then if you like add hypo-means under, ana-means against para-means beside Pick one Anacrebetophobia Or you could pick a crawly monster: Echidnophobia (three hits on Google)
  • phobias - What is the word for a fear of hippopotamuses? - English . . .
    Not everything has a phobia attached to it The original seriousness of the formation has been lost A fear of hippos is entire natural and unlikely to be capable of being a phobia Under the rules of "fair use", you can use any reasonably descriptive or defining prefix to phobia to create a new "phobia"
  • Antonym of phobia - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    There are two arguments that justify the question 1) etymology phobia - aversion; philia - affection, which are closer to antonyms 2) the suffixes are indeed used like this - compare hydrophile and hydrophobe, and as suffixes they can be considered antonyms Also if you take a def of phobia as "a very strong feeling of disliking or being afraid
  • Is there a suffix like phile or phobe for dont care?
    Many activists use the phobia to describe indifference or just mild dislike, because they think whoever is not strongly supporting their cause must be supporting the enemy Of course, this doesn't mean we should adopt this (mis)usage of the word phobia –





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