cudgel

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
2. Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.

Verb

1. To strike with a cudgel.
2. To exercise (one's wits or brains).

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈkʌd͡ʒəl/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“stick with a rounded end”).