c. 1400, from Old French fausset (14c.) "breach, spigot, stopper, peg (of a barrel)," which is of unknown origin; perhaps diminutive of Latin faux, fauces "upper part of the throat, pharynx, gullet." Not in Watkins, but Barnhart, Gamillscheg, and others suggest the Old French word is from fausser "to damage, break into," from Late Latin falsare (see false).
Spigot and faucet was the name of an old type of tap for a barrel or cask, consisting of a hollow, tapering tube, which was driven at the narrow end into a barrel, and a screw into the tube which regulated the flow of the liquid. Properly, it seems, the spigot was the tube, the faucet the screw, but the senses have merged or reversed over time. OED reports that faucet is now the common word in American English for the whole apparatus.
双语例句
1. The faucet has developed a drip.
那个水龙头已经开始滴水了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. Water is dripping from that leaky faucet.
水正从漏水的笼头滴下来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. That faucet dribbles badly.
那个水龙头漏水严重.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.
她关掉水龙头，把手擦干。
来自辞典例句
5. Is It'something you can turn on and off like a faucet?