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.
实用例句
1. My view is that this is a stitch up.
我认为这是一个陷阱。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The design can be worked in cross stitch.
这个图案可以用十字针法绣出来。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The surgeon would pick up his instruments, probe, repair and stitch up again.
外科医生会拿起他的工具，探查、修复然后再重新缝合。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Embroidery calls for great care . There must not be even a single sloppy stitch.
刺绣要求很高, 一针也不能马虎.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. He claimed that a police officer had threatened to stitch him up and send him to prison.
