• vt. 把...擠在一起；使縮成一團；草率了事
• vi. 蜷縮；擠作一團
• n. 擁擠；混亂；雜亂一團
• n. (Huddle)人名；(英)赫德爾

可能來自PIE*skeu,遮蔽，隱藏，詞源同hide,hut,-le,表反復。引申詞義蜷縮，擠在一起。

huddle

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.

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筑。

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里，大口喘著氣。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The house is very small and cannot huddle all of us.

房子太小了,擠不下我們所有的人.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. They like living in a huddle.

他們喜歡雜居在一起.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》