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ˈmerry-wing
[f. merry a. + wing n.; app. with reference to the rapid beating of the wings.]
†1. A kind of gnat or mosquito found in the West Indies, esp. Jamaica and Barbados. Obs.
1671Ogilby Amer. 340 In some parts of the Countrey [in Jamaica] there are also a sort of stinging Flies, call'd Muschilli and Merrywings. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Merry-wings, a sort of Fly, very troublesome in the Night, in the Island of Barbadoes. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 87 The Merry-Wing..is a very minute Fly... They seem to be exactly of the same Species with the Gnat in England.
2. U.S. The golden-eye, Clangula glaucion.
1888G. Trumbull Names of Birds 78. |