英语词汇“cuckoo's note”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A bird, Cuculus canorus, well known by the call of the male during mating time, of which the name is an imitation. cuckoo's note (figurative): repetition of the same words.It is a migratory bird, arriving in the British Islands in April, and hence welcomed as the ‘harbinger of spring’; it does not hatch its own offspring, but deposits its eggs in the nests of small birds, as the hedge sparrow, water-wagtail, yellowhammer, and others; to this peculiarity many allusions occur: cf. also cuckold n.¹

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Cuculus > cuculus canorus (cuckoo)

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c1240 Cuckoo Song Sumer is icumen in..murie sing cuccu! Cuccu! cuccu! Wel singes þu cuccu; ne swik þu nauer nu.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 22 Þe yelpere is þe cockou þet ne kan naȝt zinge bote of him-zelue.

c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 358 Ther was..the cokkow [v.r. cucko, cuckow, kukkowe, cuccow] most onkynde.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 702 Hic cuculus, cauko.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 762 A cocow.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 241 The gukgo [1553 gukkow] galys, and so quytteris the quaill.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 132/1 No more meruailous is a koko than a cock.

1594 E. Spenser Amoretti xix. sig. B3 The merry Cuckow, messenger of Spring.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 210 You trow nuncle, the hedge sparrow fed the Cookow so long, that it had it head bit off beit young.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ii. 14 He..may as well make a hedge to keep in the Cuckow.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 From the first Note the hollow Cuckoo sings, The Symphony of Spring.

1749 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) X. 28 Sir, I must come in again with my cuckoo's note,—The proof! Where is the proof!

1807 W. Wordsworth To Cuckoo i, in Poems II. 57 O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?

1841–44 R. W. Emerson Over-soul in Wks. (1906) I. 111 Yonder masterful cuckoo Crowds every egg out of the nest..except its own.

单词	cuckoo's note
释义	> as lemmas cuckoo's note a. A bird, Cuculus canorus, well known by the call of the male during mating time, of which the name is an imitation. cuckoo's note (figurative): repetition of the same words.It is a migratory bird, arriving in the British Islands in April, and hence welcomed as the ‘harbinger of spring’; it does not hatch its own offspring, but deposits its eggs in the nests of small birds, as the hedge sparrow, water-wagtail, yellowhammer, and others; to this peculiarity many allusions occur: cf. also cuckold n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Cuculus > cuculus canorus (cuckoo) yekec725 cuckooc1240 gowkc1325 Welsh ambassador1608 Welsh ledger1608 suck-egg1851 c1240 Cuckoo Song Sumer is icumen in..murie sing cuccu! Cuccu! cuccu! Wel singes þu cuccu; ne swik þu nauer nu. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 22 Þe yelpere is þe cockou þet ne kan naȝt zinge bote of him-zelue. c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 358 Ther was..the cokkow [v.r. cucko, cuckow, kukkowe, cuccow] most onkynde. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 702 Hic cuculus, cauko. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 762 A cocow. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 241 The gukgo [1553 gukkow] galys, and so quytteris the quaill. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 132/1 No more meruailous is a koko than a cock. 1594 E. Spenser Amoretti xix. sig. B3 The merry Cuckow, messenger of Spring. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 210 You trow nuncle, the hedge sparrow fed the Cookow so long, that it had it head bit off beit young. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ii. 14 He..may as well make a hedge to keep in the Cuckow. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 From the first Note the hollow Cuckoo sings, The Symphony of Spring. 1749 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) X. 28 Sir, I must come in again with my cuckoo's note,—The proof! Where is the proof! 1807 W. Wordsworth To Cuckoo i, in Poems II. 57 O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? 1841–44 R. W. Emerson Over-soul in Wks. (1906) I. 111 Yonder masterful cuckoo Crowds every egg out of the nest..except its own. extracted from cuckoon. < as lemmas
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