请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 dabchick
释义 dabchick|ˈdæbtʃɪk|
Forms: α. 6 dapchicke, dopchicken, 6–7 dopchick(e; β. 7 dip-chicke, 9 dibchick; γ. 6 dobchickin, 7–8 dobchick; δ. 7–9 dab-chick, 8– dabchick.
[The early forms dap-, dop-chick, with the later dip-chick, and synonym dopper, appear to connect the first part of the word with the ablaut stem deup, dup-, dop- of dip, deep; but the forms in dob-, dab-, seem to be associated with some senses of dab v.]
The Little Grebe, Podiceps minor, a small water-bird, found in rivers and other fresh waters, and noted for its diving; in U.S. the name is applied to another species of Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps.
α1575Turberv. Faulconrie 150 Small fowle, as the dap-chicke, or suche like.1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xc. 552 The Swanne the Cormorant the pellicane, the Dopchicken the storke.1615Chapman Odyss. xv. 636 She..Shot dead the woman, who into the pump Like to a dop-chick dived.1732Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVII. 449 Podicipes minor rostro vario, The Pied Bill Dopchick.1888W. Somerset Word-bk., Dapchick. (Always.)
β1602Carew Cornwall 35 a, The Dip-chicke (so named of his diving and littlenesse).1827T. Attwood in C. M. Wakefield Life viii. (1885) 109, I am glad Bosco has got the dibchicks.
γ15..Parl. Byrdes 88 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 171 The Cote, the Dobchick, and the water Hen.1598Florio, Piombrino..a bird called a kingsfisher. Some take it for a dobchickin.1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 59 White-breasted Divers, and Dobchicks.1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 340 The Didapper, or Dipper, or Dobchick, or small Doucker.1766Pennant Zool. (1768) II. 397. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 214 Dobchick.
δ1610[see c].1728Pope Dunc. ii. 63 As when a dab-chick waddles thro' the copse, On feet and wings, and flies, and wades, and hops.1789G. White Selborne (1853) II. xli. 273 Dabchicks and coots fly erect.1870Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 7 Brentford again dived, to reappear suddenly, like a dab chick on the surface of history.
b. dial. Applied to the Moor-hen or Water-hen.
1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Dab-chick, the water-hen.1879Shropsh. Word-bk., Dab-chick, the Water-hen.
c. fig. Of a girl.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. ii, 'Fore God, She is a delicate Dab-chick! I must have her.
Ash's explanation ‘A chicken newly hatched’ (to which the Century Dictionary refers the quot. from Pope in a δ) is merely an amusing blunder.
随便看

 

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/15 7:32:39