α. 1500s duckes meat, 1600s ducks meat, 1700s– duck's meat.
β. see duck n.1 and meat n.
单词 | ducks meat |
释义 | duck's meatduckmeatn.α. 1500s duckes meat, 1600s ducks meat, 1700s– duck's meat. β. see duck n.1 and meat n. a. = duckweed n. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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