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rubber teat for a baby · noun
A small rubber or plastic piece shaped like the end of a bottle, which a baby holds in its mouth and sucks so that it stays calm and stops crying.
奶嘴
Pacify plus -er: the thing that makes the noise stop. Picture the crying baby and the small rubber teat going in. Nothing is fed, nothing is fixed, and the room goes quiet anyway. Once you can see that, the word can be pointed at anything offered to a restless person or a restless crowd for the same reason.
From pacify plus -er; the -er goes back through Middle English -ere and Old English -ere, naming the doer.
由 pacify 加上 -er 構成。-er 這個結尾一路可以追到古英語的 -ere,作用就是指出「做這件事的那一個」。
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rubber teat for a baby · noun
A small rubber or plastic piece shaped like the end of a bottle, which a baby holds in its mouth and sucks so that it stays calm and stops crying.
奶嘴