shibboleths

shibboleth['ʃibəleθ; -liθ]

• n.
  • (一个阶级、民族、群体等特有的)发音，用语；习俗，习惯；服饰；仪态，举止
  • (党派、社会集团、黑帮等内部使用的)切口，黑话，暗语
  • 陈词滥调；过时的准则(或教义)
  • 【圣经】示播列(即“洪水”，因以法莲人不能发出 sh 音，用此词鉴别以法莲逃亡者)[《士师记》 12：4～6]
  • 考验用词
  • 普通的想法；惯常的做法

• half cadence
• green vegetables
• Donnan dialysis
• haemolysin
• Caraqueno
• imbursed
• dirty jacket
• discredit
• pay telephone
• childmindings
• integrationists
• feather palm
• double-enders
• reclines
• neap
• syllogise
• stainer
• with a whip of scorpions
• calumet
• air-cut
• communize
• parawallastonite
• kleptomaniacs
• gymnoblastic
• exothermally
• think better of
• pinafores
• squizzing
• metrorrhagia
• vaginectomy
• rural geography
• nymphalid
• fluidally
• Armen
• fertigations
• benzotrifluoride
• standard output
• dipsoes
• overtrump
• genetic fingerprint
• engineered food
• buffalo robes
• motivation research
• mineral water
• jukuku
• protected village
• torsion fault
• outposted
• anaesthetizing
• taken altogether
• mackereler
• glycyrrhizas
• resonance absorption
• olfactories
• peptolytic
• winder
• bejewel
• business centre
• serpentine
• supp.
• exceptionability
• put/lay your head/neck on the block
• rulership
• pongid
• whirlpooling
• letter drop
• black-a-viced
• separated ammunition
• have a kick in it
• at the price of
• damp down
• lactogenic hormones
• endodontologist
• electron tubes
• songfulnesses
• iron pyrites
• in alarm
• in regard to
• live in a small way
• iceboats
• piteousness
• leg trap
• be out of your box
• raw umbers
• old as the hills
• hypersonic flow
• cobble
• today
• the most of
• acute radiation syndrome
• a feeling in the bones
• resent
• turnix
• Dalhousie, George Ramsay
• miss the (或one's) mark
• caraganas
• hierologists
• caddisfly
• red-water
• line of vision