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• gnaspe

語源

From an alteration of gnast, with a meaning of snap. Compare also Low German gnaspern (“to gnash”). More at gnast.

動詞

gnasp (三人称単数 現在形 gnasps, 現在分詞 gnasping, 過去形および過去分詞形 gnasped)

1. (transitive, まれに, obsolete または dialectal) To snatch at with the teeth.

   He gnasped with his tethe at the chery to catche it: — John Palsgrave.

参照

• 1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "gnasp".
• 1872, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century