| 释义 |
† hum-bird Obs.
[f. hum n. or vb. stem + bird n.]
= humming-bird.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 31 As she flies, she makes a little humming noise like a Humble-bee: wherefore shee is called the Humbird. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. viii. 315 The Humbird, not much exceeding a Beetle. 1698B. Bullivant in Phil. Trans. XX. 168 The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand. 1819J. R. Drake Culprit Fay iv, Some from the hum-bird's downy nest. 1834C. A. Davis Lett. Jack Downing 6 They both came within a humbird's eye of it. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 377 The tiny Mango Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris)..is known familiarly..as Humbird or Hummer simply. 1891R. T. Cooke Huckleberries (1896) 167, I never see a humbird fuller o' buzz than little Prudy. |