单词 | chicken house |
释义 | chicken housen. A shed or building in which chickens are kept; a chicken coop. Cf. henhouse n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > chicken-coop mewc1387 hen coop1423 coop1530 hen cub1583 chicken coop1687 chicken house1750 chicken cavie?a1786 hen-rip1788 par1866 hover1907 1750 tr. R.-A. F. de Réaumur Art of hatching Domestick Fowls viii. 363 It is a prospect really amusing, to see forty or fifty chickens scattered here and there, run to the plate full of worms, put into their chicken-house [Fr. poussinière]. 1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Jan. 288/1 They are shut up in the chicken-house. 1899 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 27 Sept. 5/4 The chickenhouses of three residents..were raided..and 101 chickens stolen. 1918 Daily Mail 7 Dec. 4/4 Go to your chicken-house on a winter morning when a dust of snow lies on the ground—and the marks of pads [of foxes] are thick as footsteps on a muddy pavement! 2015 Sunday Express (Nexis) 2 Aug. (S Mag.) 79 I made a hasty retreat to lock up the ducks and chickens..when I noticed a commotion in the chicken house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1750 |
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