| 释义 |
gorcock Sc. and north. dial.|ˈgɔːkɒk|
[f. gor of obscure origin (hardly, as in the case of next, = gore n.1) + cock.]
The male of the Red Grouse.
1620Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 128, 2 gorcocks, xd. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 177 The Red Game, called in some places the Gorcock and More-cock, Lagopus altera Plinii. 1794Pickering in Burns' Wks. (1809) IV. 176 Full ninety winters hae I seen, And pip'd where gor-cocks whirring flew. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. vi, 'Mongst desert hills, where, leagues around Dwelt but the gorcock and the deer. 1856W. E. Aytoun Bothwell (1857) 48, I thought to hear the gorcock crow, or ouzel whistle shrill. 1882J. Brown John Leech, etc., Dk. Athole 373 He was..as prompt and hardy, as heathery as a gorcock. |