hollow: [12] Modern English hole comes from an Old English adjective meaning ‘hollow’, and by a coincidental swap hollow originated in an Old English word for ‘hole’ (the two are probably ultimately related). Old English holh meant ‘hollow place’, ‘hole’, or ‘cave’, and presumably came from the same source as produced Old English hol ‘hollow’. In the early Middle English period it began to be used as an adjective, its inflected form holge having become holwe, later holew or hollow. => cauliflower
hollow (adj.)
c. 1200, from Old English holh (n.) "hollow place, hole," from Proto-Germanic *hul-, from PIE *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). The figurative sense of "insincere" is attested from 1520s. Related: Hollowly; hollowness. To carry it hollow "take it completely" is first recorded 1660s, of unknown origin or connection.
hollow (v.)
late 14c., holowen, from hollow (adj.). Related: Hollowed; hollowing.
hollow (n.)
"lowland, valley, basin," 1550s, probably a modern formation from hollow (adj.). Old English had holh (n.) "cave, den; internal cavity."
例文
1. Bake some big red peppers and hollow them out.
いくつかのパプリカを焼いてから、空にします。
2.He looked young，dark and sharp-featured，with hollow cheeks.
彼は若く見えて、肌の色が黒くて、目鼻立ちがはっきりしていて、頬が凹んでいる。
3.The ersatz spontaneity of "Sunday Love "sounds especially hollow .
『日曜日の恋』という歌の即興的なパロディーは特に空虚に聞こえる。
4.Murray Pick 's hollow laugh had no mirth in it.
マレー?ピケの笑いには少しも楽しさがない。
5.I made my home there，in the hollow of a dying elm.