单词 | chucky-pig |
释义 | chucky-pign. 1. regional. A pig, esp. a young one. Now rare.In quot. 1888 in a nursery rhyme.In quot. 1983 in extended use: an untidy person. ΚΠ 1798 D. Cobb Let. 2 Dec. in Publ. Colonial Soc. Mass. (1954) 37 945 The mode and manner of your feeding your poultry, chucky pigs, etc., praying in your family, and indeed all your indoor and outdoor occurrences. 1859 Leisure Hour 25 Aug. 543/1 A litter of fourteen ‘chucky-pigs,’ as Master Bobby calls them, all comfortable with their dam in clean straw, and in perfectly presentable odour. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Choogey A common play with very little children is to take the toes between the finger and thumb, beginning with the great toe and changing with each line. This choogey-pig went to market, This choogey-pig stayed at home, [etc.]. 1894 G. F. Northall Folk-phrases 38 Chucky pig, a young pig. 1897 J. Barker in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 600/1 [Warwickshire] A nice chucky pig. 1983 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1999) at Chooky Don't be such a chooky-pig! 2. English regional (chiefly south-western). A woodlouse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus lockchestera1400 sow14.. lugdora1425 louk?a1450 lockchestc1450 cheslip1530 palmer1538 chestworm1544 Robin Goodfellow's louse1552 monk's peason1558 cheslock1574 porcelet1578 swine louse1579 hog-louse1580 multiped1601 kitchen-bob1610 woodlouse1611 loop1612 millipede1612 timber-sow1626 cheeselog1657 sow-louse1658 thurse-louse1658 onisc1661 monkey pea1682 slater1684 slatter1739 sow-bug1750 Oniscus1806 pig louse1819 hob-thrush1828 land-slater1863 pig's louse1888 wall-louse1899 oniscoid1909 chucky-pig1946 1946 H. S. Joyce I was born in Country viii. 85 Woodlice were found under stones and logs of wood. We called them ‘chooky-pigs’. 1965 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 97 116 In North and West Devon chuggy-pig is the most common. Billy-button, chucky-pig (or -peg), hardy-back and sow-pig are also found. 2007 A. Dunham Temporal Cartographer (e-book, accessed 17 Aug. 2017) 19 ‘Do you have rooms available, too?’... ‘Yezzir we doo'm. Iffen youz dun moind chuggypigs 'n' flittermouses!’ 2017 @To_m_S 5 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Just lifted up a massive stone and was set upon by furious Chucky Pigs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1798 |
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