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单词 crood
释义

croodcroudv.

Forms: Also 1500s crowd.
Etymology: Echoic.
Scottish.
intransitive. To make the murmuring sound of a dove. (Also, to croak: see quot. 1710.)
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a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 237 The cowschet crowdis and pyrkis on the ryss.
1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (1629) 299 Turtles crouding with sighes and grones.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. Crowde, to curr like a dove. We now use it Scot. for the noise of frogs.
1786 R. Burns Poems 211 While thro' the braes the cushat croods With wailfu' cry!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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