| 词汇 | zyzzyva |
| 词源 | zyzzyva. Often destructive to plants, the zyzzyva (pro- nounced ziz-ih-vuh) weevil is a leaf-hopping insect of tropical America that provides one of the best examples of onomato- poeia at work in the creation of words. Although most diction- aries give its origin as “obscure,” if they give it at all, the word probably derives from the Spanish ziz, zas!, which is “echoic of the impact of a blow,” the reference being, of course, to the noise made by these cicada-like insects. |
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