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单词 pea-chick
释义 ˈpea-chick
[f. pea2 + chick.]
The young of the pea-fowl.
1542Boorde Dyetary xv. (1870) 270 Yonge peechyken [plural] of a halfe a yere of age be praysed.1634Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xxiii, To Mr. Prestwood for 1 peacock and a pea henn 00 13 00..To him for 3 peachickes 00 07 06.1878J. Inglis Sport & W. xi. 120 The peachicks, about seven or eight months old, are deliciously tender and well flavoured.
b. Applied to a young and vain person.
a1746Southerne (J.), Does the snivelling peachick think to make a cuckold of me?1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. i. 134 How these young pea-chicks must needs ape the grown peacock's frippery!
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