huddle: [16] Huddle originally meant ‘hide’ (‘to chop off the head of the sentence, and slyly huddle the rest’, James Bell’s translation of Walter Haddon against Orosius 1581), suggesting that it could well be a derivative of the same base as produced English hide (its form indicates that it would have come via a Low German dialect). But virtually from the first huddling was more than just ‘hiding’ – it was ‘hiding in a heap or among a crowd’; and from this has developed the word’s modern meaning ‘crowd or draw together’.
huddle (v.)
1570s, "to heap or crowd together," probably from Low German hudern "to cover, to shelter," from Middle Low German huden "to cover up," from Proto-Germanic *hud- (see hide (v.)). Compare also Middle English hoderen "heap together, huddle" (c. 1300). Related: Huddled; huddling. The noun is from 1580s. U.S. football sense is from 1928.
雙語例句
1. Between plays the coach was talking to the offense in the huddle.
中場時，這位教練對圍攏一圈的進攻隊員進行戰術指導。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I remembered a huddle of stone buildings with blind walls.
我記得一片沒有窗戶的石頭建築。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We lay there: a huddle of bodies, gasping for air.
我們橫七豎八地擠作一團躺在那裏，大口喘著氣。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The house is very small and cannot huddle all of us.