dirty allann.

Forms: Scottish

α. 1700s dirty aulin, 1800s– dirty allan, 1800s– dirty allen.

β. 1800s dirten alan, 1800s dirten allan, 1800s dirten allen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dirty adj., dirten adj., allan n.

Etymology: In α. forms < dirty adj. + allan n. (see discussion at that entry). In β. forms < dirten adj. + allan n. Compare earlier scouty-aulin n., and also the sense ‘arctic skua’ of dirt-bird n.The first element refers to the belief that the bird forced other birds to void excrement, which it would then devour. Compare (denoting the same bird) Dutch strontjager (1763), German Struntjäger (c1800), Norwegian struntjager (1765), Danish struntjæger (1796; compare quot. 1821), Swedish struntjager (c1700), all literally ‘shit hunter’, and also early modern Dutch regional (Scheveningen) scitvalck (1578), literally ‘shit falcon’.

A species of skua, Stercorarius crepidatus, which obtains its food chiefly by pursuing gulls and other sea-birds, and forcing them to disgorge their prey, which it then catches up; = dirt-bird n.

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plunger1655

dung bird1677

skua1678

dung hunter1694

skua-gull1768

dirty allan1771

bonxiea1777

dung teaser1841

weese allan1849

sea-hawk1852

turd-bird1864

shoemaker1867

dirt-bird1885

1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 78 (Jam.) at Aulin An Arctic Gull flew near the boat. This is the species that persecutes and pursues the lesser kinds, till they mute through fear, when it catches their excrement ere they reach the water: the boatmen, on that account, styled it the dirty Aulin.

1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 201 (Jam.) at Scouti-aulin This bird is sometimes simply called the Allan; sometimes the Dirten-allan.

1821 A. Fisher Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 18 Commonly called by our Greenland seamen the boatswain, and sometimes dirty Allen, a name somewhat analogous to that by which it is characterized by the Danes.

1844 Zoologist 2 515 Richardson's skua, ‘Dirten Allen.’

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 210 Richardson's Skua (Stercorarius crepidatus)..from the vulgar opinion that the gulls are muting, when, in reality, they are only disgorging fish newly caught. Dirt bird (Dundrum Bay)..Dirty allan or aulin..Dung bird.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	dirty allan
释义	dirty allann. Forms: Scottish α. 1700s dirty aulin, 1800s– dirty allan, 1800s– dirty allen. β. 1800s dirten alan, 1800s dirten allan, 1800s dirten allen. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dirty adj., dirten adj., allan n. Etymology: In α. forms < dirty adj. + allan n. (see discussion at that entry). In β. forms < dirten adj. + allan n. Compare earlier scouty-aulin n., and also the sense ‘arctic skua’ of dirt-bird n.The first element refers to the belief that the bird forced other birds to void excrement, which it would then devour. Compare (denoting the same bird) Dutch strontjager (1763), German Struntjäger (c1800), Norwegian struntjager (1765), Danish struntjæger (1796; compare quot. 1821), Swedish struntjager (c1700), all literally ‘shit hunter’, and also early modern Dutch regional (Scheveningen) scitvalck (1578), literally ‘shit falcon’. A species of skua, Stercorarius crepidatus, which obtains its food chiefly by pursuing gulls and other sea-birds, and forcing them to disgorge their prey, which it then catches up; = dirt-bird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > genus Stercorarius (skuas or jaegers) > stercorarius skua (skua) plunger1655 dung bird1677 skua1678 dung hunter1694 skua-gull1768 dirty allan1771 bonxiea1777 dung teaser1841 weese allan1849 sea-hawk1852 turd-bird1864 shoemaker1867 dirt-bird1885 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 78 (Jam.) at Aulin An Arctic Gull flew near the boat. This is the species that persecutes and pursues the lesser kinds, till they mute through fear, when it catches their excrement ere they reach the water: the boatmen, on that account, styled it the dirty Aulin. 1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 201 (Jam.) at Scouti-aulin This bird is sometimes simply called the Allan; sometimes the Dirten-allan. 1821 A. Fisher Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 18 Commonly called by our Greenland seamen the boatswain, and sometimes dirty Allen, a name somewhat analogous to that by which it is characterized by the Danes. 1844 Zoologist 2 515 Richardson's skua, ‘Dirten Allen.’ 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 210 Richardson's Skua (Stercorarius crepidatus)..from the vulgar opinion that the gulls are muting, when, in reality, they are only disgorging fish newly caught. Dirt bird (Dundrum Bay)..Dirty allan or aulin..Dung bird. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1771
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