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单词 galeeny
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galeenyn.

/ɡəˈliːni/
Forms: Also 1700s galina, 1800s galan(e)y, -ainy, -eny, -iny, gallini.
Etymology: < Spanish gallina morisca (Minsheu 1623) lit. ‘Moorish hen’, or its equivalent in Portuguese or Italian.
A guinea fowl.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl)
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1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 234 They had also here the tame galinas, or Guinea-hens, called tokay.
1801 J. Austen Let. 14 Jan. (1995) 73 Bantam-Cocks & Galinies.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 176 Galaney, a fowl.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. vi. 68 Men is desaving, and so is galanies.
1887 Mrs. M. L. Woods Village Tragedy ii ‘Girls..as don't know a hen's egg from a galeeny's’.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Galainy, a guinea fowl.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Gallini, the Guinea fowl.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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