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An otter is a smooth brown animal that lives in and beside rivers, lakes, and the sea. It swims very well, has thick fur that keeps water out, and eats fish and other small water creatures. People often find otters charming: they play, they slide down banks, they hold food in their . The English word is very old — Middle English oter, Old English otor — and it sits on the same deep root as a water-animal, itself from the old root for water, which makes honest sense. You will meet it in nature films and in children’s books more than in city talk, unless you live by a river.
水獺
組成From Middle English oter, from Old English otor, from Proto-West Germanic *otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (a water-animal), from *wed- (water).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Ottername/ˈɒt.ə/
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A river with its source in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, and which flows through Devon, to Lyme Bay in the English Channel.
otternoun詞源 1/ˈɒt.ə/
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An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
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An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
- 'The Aleuts come from a country far to the north,' he said. 'Their ways are not ours nor is their language. They have come to take otter and to give us our share in many goods which they have and which we can use.
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slangLGBTA hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more thickset.
otternoun詞源 2/ˈɒt.ə/
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obsoleteannatto (dye)
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。