2020-10-28
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด L – leach - leech
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง leach & leech = ‘LEECH’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
leach
to dissolve out substances; to percolate
Not to be confused with:
leech – bloodsucking worm; extortioner; sponger
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for leech
Noun (1)
PARASITE, SYCOPHANT, TOADY, LEECH, SPONGE
mean a usually obsequious flatterer or self-seeker.
PARASITE applies to one who clings to a person of wealth, power, or influence or is useless to society. a jet-setter with an entourage of parasites
SYCOPHANT adds to this a strong suggestion of fawning, flattery, or adulation. a powerful prince surrounded by sycophants
TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker. cultivated leaders of society and became their toady
LEECH stresses persistence in clinging to or bleeding another for one's own advantage. a leech living off his family and friends
SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger. a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The Leech Finger?
The above citation brings us to the leeches.
One of the many names that this ring finger
has had over the centuries is leech finger.
This makes much more sense when you realize that
leech is a very old term for a physician or doctor
(the bloodsucking annelid worm is called by this name
because of the habit that physicians had of sticking them onto patients,
in order to remove unwanted blood).
In addition to the not very euphonious leech finger,
the ring finger has been calledthe leechman finger, the medical (and medicinal) finger, the physic (and physician) finger, the annular finger and the heart finger.
For a brief period of time in the 17th century it was even called,
with no apparent sense of irony, the nameless finger.
A Semi-circle gross in the bottom of the Annular finger, discovers an unhappy man, and of evil mind, and resolution.
—Richard Saunders, Palmistry, the Secrets Disclosed_, 1663
To cure the faintness of the Heart. 'Tis good to press and bend the joint of the Heart or Physick-finger, or to rub the same with a piece of Gold and Saffron: for from this finger, the vertue goes to the Heart.
—T.K., The Kitchin-Physician, 1680
Q. Why is the Ring put on the fourth finger?
B. Because that is called the heart finger, and hath (they say) a veine in it which reacheth to the heart, so to signifie the hearty, and constant love which ought to be betwixt man and wife.
—Henry Turberville, An Abridgement of Christian Doctrine, 1648
Put thy namelesse finger in the wound, and make therewith three crosses upon the wound, and say five Pater nosters, five Aves, and one Credo, in the honour of the five wounds.
—Reginald Scot, Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft, 1651
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
leach - leech
Water leaches chemicals out of soil or color out of cloth,
your brother-in-law leeches off the family by constantly borrowing money to pay his gambling debts (he behaves like a bloodsucking leech).
