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Punch Pounce Originally Bird Stamping Perforating Middle English

正面 12870.pounce
英 [paʊns]美 [paʊns]

背面
释义:
vi. 突袭,猛扑vt. 扑过去抓住n. 猛扑,爪
例句:
1. Fraud squad officers had bugged the phone and were ready to pounce.反诈骗小组的警员们已在电话上安装了窃听器,并随时准备突击。

1. punch => pounce.2. 谐音“扑n撕” --- “扑上去” and “撕扯它”。3. 谐音“扑摁撕、刨摁撕”。
pounce 鹰爪,猛扑,突袭来自古法语ponchon,标枪,矛,刺,词源同punch,puncture.比喻用法,引申词义鹰爪,猛扑,突袭等。
pouncepounce: [15] Pounce was originally a noun, denoting the ‘claw of a bird of prey’. It is thought it may have come from puncheon ‘stamping or perforating tool’, which was also abbreviated to punch ‘stamping or perforating tool’ and is probably related to punch ‘hit’. The verb pounce emerged in the 17th century. It at first meant ‘seize with talons’, and was not generalized to ‘attack swoopingly’ until the 18th century.=> punchpounce (v.)1680s, originally "to seize with the pounces," from Middle English pownse (n.) "hawk's claw" (see pounce (n.)). Meaning "to jump or fall upon suddenly" is from 1812. Figurative sense of "lay hold of eagerly" is from 1840. Related: Pounced; pouncing.pounce (n.)"claw of a bird of prey," late 15c., pownse, probably from Old French ponchon "lance, javelin; spine, quill" (Modern French poinçon; see punch (v.)). So called for being the "claws that punch" holes in things. In falconry, the heel claw is a talon, and others are pounces. Meaning "an act of jumping or falling upon" is from 1825. In Middle English also the name of a tool for punching holes or embossing metal (late 14c.)."

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