| 释义 |
capercailye, capercailzie Sc.|kæpəˈkeɪljɪ, keɪ-, -ˈkeɪlzɪ|
Forms; 6–9 capercailye, -llie, -ly, -le, capercalȝe, -calye, -calzeane (-callzie), 7 -kelly, 7–9 -caley, -cally, 8 -coille, -colze, -colly, (cobberkely), 9 capercailzie, -kayle, caipercaillie.
[Corruption of the Gael. name capull coille (kapəl ˈkɒlje) great cock (lit. horse) of the wood (coille = genitive of coll wood). The lz for lȝ is a 16th c. Sc. way of representing l mouillé, as in Sc. spulȝe, Fr. espouille spoil, and is properly represented by ly.]
The Wood-grouse (Tetrao urogallus), the largest of European gallinaceous birds; the male is also called Mountain Cock or Cock of the Woods. Formerly indigenous in the Scottish Highlands, where, after having become extinct, it has again been introduced from Scandinavia.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. Introd. 42 Caper⁓cailye, ane foul mair than ane ravin quhilk leiffis allanerlie of barkis of treis. 1596J. Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotl. (1885) 39 The Capercalȝe..with the vulgar peple, the horse of the forest. 1630–56Sir R. Gordon Hist. Earl. Suthd., In these fforests..ther is great store of partriges, pluivers, capercaleys. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. 71 The Cobberkely which is sometimes called a wild turkey. 1797Statist. Acc. Scotl. XX. 307 (Inverness) The caper coille or wild turkey was seen in Glenmoriston about 40 years ago. 1799R. Jamieson Ballad, Ld. Kenneth & Ellinour, The Caiper-caillie and Tarmachin, Craw'd crouse on hill and muir. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xlii. 460 The larger capercailzies..had been quite destroyed. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 50 Saw a capercailzie, of which there are many here. |