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单词 dewlap
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dewlapn.

Brit. /ˈdjuːlap/, U.S. /ˈd(j)uˌlæp/
Forms: Also 1500s dew lop, ( dew-clap).
Etymology: The second element lap n.1 is Old English læppa, pendulous piece, skirt, lappet, lobe; the first is uncertain: the equivalent Danish doglæb, Norwegian doglæp, Swedish dröglapp, in which the first element is not the word for ‘dew’, suggest that the original form has been altered under the influence of popular etymology. The English form may be explained as the ‘lap’ or pendulous piece which touches the dewy surface; but that is not likely to have been the original notion.
1.
a. The fold of loose skin which hangs from the throat of cattle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > dewlap
freshlapa1398
dewlap1398
lap1398
crop1599
crest1607
lap-lock1648
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl. 3738) xviii. xiii In Siria beþ oxen þat haue no dewe lappis nother fresche lappes vnder þrote [L. palearia sub gutture].
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 711 The kyen..Wel hered eres, and dewlappes syde [= hanging low].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Dew lappe, syde skyn' vndur a bestys throte, peleare.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxviv To cutte the dewelappe before.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 82 Their dangling Dewlaps with his hand he coyd vnfearfully.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 74 His deuelap as lythe as lasse of Kent.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. I White..as the dangling deawlap of the siluer Bull.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 58 His broad-spred brest, long dangling dew-laps deck.
1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 237 Folds of skin hang freely in some animals, as..the dewlap of cattle.
b. Transferred to similar parts in other animals, as the loose skin under the throat of dogs, etc., the pendulous fleshy lobe or wattle of the turkey and other fowls, and humorously to pendulous folds of flesh about the human throat.
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the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at throat
dewlap1600
bosco1654
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > jowl
jowlc1320
gill1596
dewlap1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 50 When she drinkes, against her lips I bob, And on her withered dewlop, poure the ale. View more context for this quotation
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. iii. 42 The dulapes and the jawy part of the face.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 161 Described to have a dew-lap under the throat..Senembi, Iguana.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 222 Dew~laps hang down from his chaps.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 398 The skin hangs loose..in a kind of dewlap.
1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 296 He [mastiff]..has the Shakesperian dewlaps shaking as he goes.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 3 Gelert is down, torn and mangled from flank to dewlap.
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2. ‘A brand used in marking cattle, being a cut in the lower part of the neck’ (Farmer, Americanisms, 1889).
3. dewlap-deep adj.
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1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 28 Great oxen, dewlap-deep In meadows of lush grass.
1922 E. Blunden Shepherd (ed. 2) 21 Where milch cows dewlap-deep may wade.

Derivatives

ˈdewlapped adj. having a dewlap.
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the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [adjective] > at throat
dewlappedc1420
wattle-faceda1627
wattle-jawed1630
throaty1778
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having loose skin at throat
dewlappedc1420
throaty1778
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 679 [699] Compact, a runcle necke, dewlapped syde Unto the kne.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 121 My hounds are bred out of the Spartane kinde..Crooke kneed, and deawlapt, like Thessalian Buls.
1713 J. Gay Rural Sports 13 The Dewlap'd Bull now scow'rs throughout the Plains, while burning Love shoots through his raging Veins.
1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i. 79, in Poems Several Occasions I. 7 The dewlap'd bull now chafes along the plain.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 355 He is a fat, dew-lapped, velvet-voiced man.
1887 J. Ruskin Hortus Inclusus 11 Dew-lapped cattle..feeding on the hillside above.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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