| 释义 |
ˈeligug dial.
Also 7 elegug, helegug, 9 eligoog.
[Derivation unknown: Prof. Rhys and the Rev. Silvan Evans do not know it as Welsh.]
A local name (in South Pembrokeshire) applied to certain sea-birds, the Common Guillemot, the Puffin, and the Razor-bill.
1662Ray Three Itin. iii. 176 This name, elegug, some attribute to the puffin, and some to the guillem. 1676Willughby Ornithologia 244 Anas Artica [i.e. the Puffin] Wallis meridionalibus circa Tenby oppidum Guldenhead, Bottle-nose & helegug. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Eligugs..called also razor-bills. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/1 Gulls, razor-bills, and puffins—the birds called locally [in Pembroke] ‘eligoogs’. |