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单词 tystie
释义 tystie local.|ˈtaɪstɪ, ˈtiːstɪ|
Also 8 taisté, 9 tysté, -ty, -tie, -tey, teisty, teistie, testie, tiestie.
[Of Norse origin: cf. Norw. teist(e, OIcel. þeist, þeisti.]
The Black Guillemot.
1774Low Fauna Orcad. (1813) 106 The taisté build in holes of the earth: lay but one egg.1837R. Dunn Ornith. Orkney & Shetl. 102 Uria Grylle{ddd}Tystie. Black Guillemot. Greenland Dove.1847Zoologist V. 1909 The black guillemot..or the testie.1876D. Gorrie Summers & Wint. Orkneys v. 153 Bevies of teisties were disporting themselves in front and rear.1892G. Stewart Shetland Fireside T. iv. (ed. 2) 27 He turned as fat as a tiestie.1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk 50 Sometimes there is quite a family of similar names..of the same origin. Thus the Black Guillemot is..the tyste, taiste, toyst, and tysty.1952U. Venables Tempestuous Eden iii. 50 This was an ideal nesting-ground for black guillemots or tysties.1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 69/1 The Tystie (or Black Guillemot)..and its congeners constitute the tribe Cepphini.1980Birds Summer 51/2 There is a small brackish loch near the shore where tysties display in spring.
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