chagrin: [17] The word chagrin first appeared in French in the 14th century as an adjective, meaning ‘sad, vexed’, a usage at first adopted into English: ‘My wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my kindness to either of them’, Samuel Pepys’s Diary 6 August 1666. It died out in English in the early 18th century, but the subsequently developed noun and verb have persisted. Etymologists now discount any connection with French chagrin ‘untanned leather’ (source of English shagreen [17]), which came from Turkish sagri.
chagrin (n.)
1650s, "melancholy," from French chagrin "melancholy, anxiety, vexation" (14c.), from Old North French chagreiner or Angevin dialect chagraigner "sadden," which is of unknown origin, perhaps [Gamillscheg] from Old French graignier "grieve over, be angry," from graigne "sadness, resentment, grief, vexation," from graim "sorrowful," which is of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source (compare Old High German gram "angry, fierce"). But OED and other sources trace it to an identical Old French word, borrowed into English phonetically as shagreen, meaning "rough skin or hide," which is of uncertain origin, the connecting notion being "roughness, harshness." Modern sense of "feeling of irritation from disappointment" is 1716.
chagrin (v.)
1660s (implied in chagrined), from chagrin (n.). Related: Chagrined; chagrining.
雙語例句
1. Much to his chagrin, he did not win the race.
使他大為懊惱的是他賽跑沒獲勝.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. One of the first things we did when we moved in, to the chagrin of the architect, was to replace the leaded windows.
讓建筑師大為懊惱的是，我們搬進去最先做的事情之一就是換掉了花飾鉛條窗。
來自柯林斯例句
3. His increasingly visible chagrin sets up a vicious circle.
他的明顯的不滿引起了一種惡性循環.
來自辭典例句
4. Much to his chagrin, he came last in the race.
他因跑個倒數第一而垂頭喪氣.
來自辭典例句
5. Chagrin is not something a great man often acknowledges.