单词 | cockpaddle |
释义 | cockpaddlen. Chiefly Scottish. Now historical. The (male) lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus. Cf. paddle-cock at paddle n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > cyclopterus lumpus (lump-fish) lump1545 mugle1574 paddle1589 sea-owl1601 snot-fish1655 sea-poult1658 werrell1658 cockpaddle1684 urchin lumpfish1688 bagaty1710 lumpfish1744 sucker1753 suck-fish1753 lump sucker1776 red lump1832 sucking-fish1867 sea-hen1892 1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 24 Lumpus Anglorum, nostratibus the Cock-Paddle. 1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. 208 The Lump or Sea-Owl, Scotis Cock-Paddle. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. xiii. 123 The Lump or Sea Owl, called in Scotland the Cock-paddle, is a thick ugly fish, having a broad flat belly and a sharp back. 1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 548 The male (called by our fishermen Cock-padle), is for the table, at that season much preferable to the female,..(the Hush, Hen-padle, and in Fife the Bagaty). 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xi. 251 How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-padle? 1841 G. Johnston in W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes (ed. 2) II. 367 The Cock and Hen Paidle spawn toward the end of March and in April. At that season the Hen..deposits her spawn among the rocks and sea-weed. 1859 J. Richardson Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Fishes (ed. 3) II. 344 The epithet of Cock-paidle seems to have originated in the appearance of the elevated dorsal ridge, which is enveloped, like the rest of the fish, in a thick, tuberculated skin, with some resemblance to the comb of a domestic cock. 1921 Illustr. London News 26 Feb. 270/3 The male lumpsucker or cock-paidle keeps watch over the big cluster of eggs in the corner of the rock-pool. 1997 P. Davis in T. W. Pietsch & W. D. Anderson Coll. Building Ichthyol. & Herpetol. 116 He does, however, make reference to species even now considered scarce on the northeast coast of England, such as..the lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus (the cockpaddle, lump or sea-owl). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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