| 单词 | doe-cat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoe-cat b. The male or he-cat (formerly also boar-cat, ram-cat) is now colloquially called tomcat (see tomcat n. 1, Tom n.1 4a); formerly and still in northern English and Scottish gib-cat (see gib n.1); the female or she-cat was formerly also doe-cat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > female doe-cat1611 queen cat1673 tabby1826 Tib-cat1828 queen1898 c1400 Rom. Rose 6207 Gibbe our cat That awaiteth mice and rattes to killen. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. A.iiv To call Phylyp agayne Whom Gyb our cat hath slayne. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 74 I am as melancholy as a gyb Cat . View more context for this quotation 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 111 The males will kill the young ones, if they come at them like as the Bore-cats. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chate, a she-cat or doe-cat. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 Nov. (1974) VIII. 553 Our young gibb-cat did leap down our stairs..at two leaps. 1749 Coles's Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 15) A gib-cat, felis mas. 1760 Life & Adventures of Cat iv Tom the Cat is born of poor but honest parents. 1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. 172 Scratch, and bite, and tear, and kick, Like two boar-cats hung 'cross a stick. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gib cat, a northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi (1793) 141 Cats..of titles obsolete or yet in use, Tom, Tybert, Roger, Rutterkin, or Puss. 1795 J. Wolcot Peter's Pension Clapping their dead ram-cats in holy ground. 1839Tom-cat [see sense 13c]. < as lemmas |
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