stitch: [OE] Stitch was originally a noun, meaning ‘sting, prick’ (a sense which survives in the very specialized application to a ‘pain in the side, caused by exertion’). It came from a prehistoric Germanic *stikiz, which was formed from the base *stik- ‘pierce, prick’ (source also of English stick). Its use as a verb, denoting ‘join with thread by piercing with a needle’, emerged at the beginning of the 13th century, and the sewing sense fed back into the noun. => stick
stitch (n.)
Old English stice "a prick, puncture, sting, stab," from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (cognates: Old Frisian steke, Old High German stih, German Stich "a pricking, prick, sting, stab"), from PIE *stig-i-, from root *steig- "to stick; pointed" (see stick (v.)). The sense of "sudden, stabbing pain in the side" was in late Old English.
Senses in sewing and shoemaking first recorded late 13c.; meaning "bit of clothing one is (or isn't) wearing" is from c. 1500. Meaning "a stroke of work" (of any kind) is attested from 1580s. Surgical sense first recorded 1520s. Sense of "amusing person or thing" is 1968, from notion of laughing so much one gets stitches of pain (cognates: verbal expression to have (someone) in stitches, 1935).
stitch (v.)
c. 1200, "to stab, pierce," also "to fasten or adorn with stitches;" see stitch (n.). Surgical sense is from 1570s. Related: Stitched; stitcher; stitching.
雙語例句
1. My view is that this is a stitch up.
我認為這是一個陷阱。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The design can be worked in cross stitch.
這個圖案可以用十字針法繡出來。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair and stitch up again.
外科醫生會拿起他的工具，探查、修複然後再重新縫合。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Embroidery calls for great care . There must not be even a single sloppy stitch.
刺繡要求很高, 一針也不能馬虎.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. He claimed that a police officer had threatened to stitch him up and send him to prison.