| 单词 | dunghill hen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdunghill hen b. Designating an ordinary, common, domestic cock or hen, as distinguished from game birds bred for fighting or (later) any improved breed, as dunghill cock, dunghill fowl, dunghill hen, etc.; designating a breed of such fowl. Hence (Cockfighting): designating any bird lacking in characteristics or qualities regarded as desirable in a game bird, esp. aggressiveness.See also dunghill craven n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock cockeOE chanticleer?a1300 common astrologera1413 dunghill cock1561 red cock1591 cock-a-doodle-doo1604 roost-cock1606 alectryon1664 stag1730 rooster1772 doodle-doo1785 cock bird1788 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen henOE Partletc1390 margery-prater1567 dunghill hen1611 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) chickenOE chicka1398 fowla1586 biddya1616 chuck1615 pull-fowla1688 chucky1724 dunghill1753 dunghill fowl1796 jungle-fowl1824 chook1888 gump1914 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. S.iii But yet it forceth not if that the donghil cocke do gesse A precious stone as nothing worth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vne poule de pailler, a dunghill henne, a henne thats fed at the barne doore. 1646 T. Swadlin Jesuite i. 31 You have driven me, not like a right bred Cock of the game, but like a ranck bastard or dunghill Bird out of the Pit. 1727 R. Bradley Country Housewife & Lady's Director 17 The sorts of the House Pullen, or common Poultry, are many; but..I shall only take notice of such as are of the large Dunghill kind, or..the Game kind, and of the small Dutch kind. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 163 The game-cock being by no means so fruitful as the ungenerous dunghill-cock. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 112 A few dung-hill fowls were also found on these islands. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 59 There goes a dunghill chicken, that your master has plucked clean enough; it will be long ere his lordship ruffle a feather with a cock of the game. 1891 Florida Agriculturist 30 Dec. 727/1 A cross for three years on a fine dunghill breed will give a strain seven eighths pure. 1936 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Feb. 12/7 It takes the same to feed a ‘dungle’ hen laying eggs 14 to the lb. as a Rhode Island or other improved breed. 1953 Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Amer. 7 Jan. 6/3 All non-fighting chickens are known in the cocker's language as dunghill chickens. 2017 www.sabong.net.ph 21 Apr. (forum post, accessed 23 Apr. 2018) There are many differences between a domestic type egg chicken and a gamefowl.... To breed a game cock to a dunghill hen is just foolishness. < as lemmas |
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