| 释义 |
‖ beccafico|bɛkkaˈfiko|
Forms: 7–9 beccafigo, 7 becchafigge, 8–9 beccafica, 8 beccifigo, 9 becafico, -ca, beccafigue, 7– beccafico.
[It.; lit. ‘fig-pecker,’ f. beccare to peck + fico fig.]
A name given in Italy to small migratory birds of the genus Sylvia, much esteemed as dainties in the autumn, when they have fattened on figs and grapes: they are identified with the British Pettychaps and Blackcaps.
1621Burton in Lamb Cur. Fragm. (1823) 574 Beccaficos which men in Sussex eat. 1708W. King Cookery (1807) 81 Quails, becafigoes, ortolans, were sent To grace the levee of a gen'ral's tent. 1732Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 39 Children sacred held a Martin's nest, Till Becca-ficos sold so dev'lish dear. 1817Byron Beppo xliii, I also like to dine on becaficas. 1835E. Jesse Gleanings Nat. Hist. Ser. iii. 77 The Beccafico annually visits the fig orchard near that place [Worthing]. 1861E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepul. I. vii. 144 Delicious little beccafigues, of which a hundred may be shot in one tree. |