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单词 ducks meat
释义

duck's meatduckmeatn.

Forms:

α. 1500s duckes meat, 1600s ducks meat, 1700s– duck's meat.

β. see duck n.1 and meat n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: duck n.1, meat n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of duck n.1 + meat n. In β. forms < duck n.1 + meat n. Compare earlier duckweed n.
a. = duckweed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies
endemetea1387
duckweedc1440
frog's foot1526
greens1526
duck's meat1538
water lentil1548
grain1578
fen lentil1601
Pistia1754
lemna1789
lentil-dew1800
water lettuce1847
Jenny Greenteeth1852
creed1880
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Lens palvstris Duckes meat.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 142 There is a kind of marish or moory Lentils (called Ducks meat) growing of it selfe in standing waters.
1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 27 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Having most of its surface covered with duck-meat.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy iii There was Andy..floundering in rank weeds and duck's meat.
b. figurative. As an epithet of contempt.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt > male
houndOE
churlc1300
pagec1385
jockeya1529
sincanterc1540
cullion1575
cur1600
swabber1612
codworm1615
bob-taila1625
pompilliona1625
duck's meata1627
swab1687
person1704
hallion1789
jackeen1810
peat1818
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 42 Heeres your first weapon ducks meat.
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