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单词 angle-taster
释义

angle-tastern.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Danish. Etymon: Danish angle-tasker.
Etymology: Apparently irregularly < Danish †angle-tasker, plural of †angle-taske long-tailed duck (1741 in the text translated in quot. 1744: H. Egede Det gamle Groenlands nye perlustration vi. 55), with the -k- misread as -t- and the plural ending misapprehended as part of the word stem, probably influenced by tersters , the previous word in quot. 1744.
Obsolete. rare.
Apparently: the long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis.
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1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 612 Greenland produces Maws, Redshanks, Cormorants, Lunders, Parrots, Sharvers, Tersters, Angle-tasters, Snipes, &c.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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