wringer
英式音标：wringer怎么读
美式音标：wringer怎么读
wringer词义
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n. 勒索者；绞拧机；绞扭的人；令人心力交困的事
wringer英文词源
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- wringer (n.)
- "device for squeezing water from clothes," 1799, agent noun from wring (v.). (Earlier it meant "extortioner," c. 1300.) Figurative phrase to put (someone) through the wringer first recorded 1942, American English.