cove: [OE] Old English cofa meant ‘small room’, as used for sleeping in or as a storeroom. It was descended from Germanic *kubon, which was probably also the ultimate ancestor of cubbyhole [19] (the superficially similar cubicle is not related). In the late Old English period this seems to have developed in northern and Scottish dialects to ‘small hollow place in coastal rocks, cave’, and hence (although not, apparently, until as late as the 16th century) to ‘small bay’. (The other cove [16], a dated slang term for ‘chap’, may come from Romany kova ‘thing, person’.) => cubbyhole
cove (n.1)
early 14c., "den, cave," from Old English cofa "small chamber, cell," from Proto-Germanic *kubon (compare Old High German kubisi "tent, hut," German Koben "pigsty," Old Norse kofi "hut, shed"). Extension of meaning to "small bay" is 1580s, apparently via Scottish dialectal meaning "small hollow place in coastal rocks" (a survival of an Old English secondary sense).
cove (n.2)
"fellow, chap," slang from at least 1560s, said to be from Romany (Gypsy) cova "that man."
雙語例句
1. The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstones.
恐龍峽谷中的化石都嵌在堅硬的砂巖中。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions.
這條路向下延伸到了一個山坳，然后在那里分了岔。
來自柯林斯例句
3. 'This is a handy cove,'says he, at length,'and a pleasant sittyated grog - shop.
“ 這海灣位置不錯, ”他終于開口說道, “ 這小旅店算是選對了地方.
來自英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島
4. The shore line is wooded, olive - green, a pristine cove.
岸邊一帶林木蓊郁, 嫩綠一片, 好一個山外的小海灣.
來自辭典例句
5. 'You are at the " Admiral Benbow ", Black Hill Cove, my good man,'said I.