单词 | foggie-bummer |
释义 | > as lemmasfoggie-bummer A carder bee, esp. Bombus muscorum or B. pascuorum. Also more fully foggie-bee, foggie-bummer, foggie-toddler. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) dora700 humble-beea1450 bumblebee1530 drumble bee1592 bumble1599 grumbledory1600 bumbee1605 bumbarda1614 dumbledore1787 foggie1819 bummer1822 bumbler1825 drumble drone1855 drumble-dore1881 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 677 Humble bees, of that brown irritable sort called foggies. 1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 64/1 A well known species of the humble bee which has its nest in a mossy bank and is itself clothed with a moss-like covering: its name among the Scotch peasantry is the fogie-bee. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 130 The mower in the meadow ruffles up The foggie's nest. 1939 A. A. MacGregor Goat-wife 80 A foggie-toddler, too heavily laden with honey to be able to wing it. 2001 R. Jenkins Childish Things iii. xi. 243 The profusion of white butterflies and the bumble bees, the sodgers as we called them with the khaki stripes and the fuggies that had no sting. 2005 A. Fenton Buchan Words & Ways iv. 109 If they found a foggy bees' byke they would burn the moss and grass around to be able to steal the honey. < as lemmas |
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