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单词 gingreate
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gingreatev.

Forms: 1600s gingreat, 1600s gingreate.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin gingrīre , -ate suffix3.
Etymology: Apparently irregularly < classical Latin gingrīre to cackle like a goose (attested in an 8th-cent. epitome of a 2nd-cent. grammarian; of imitative origin, with expressive duplication) + -ate suffix3.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. Of a bird: to chirp.Apparently only attested in dictionaries.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gingreate, to chirpe as birds doe.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Gingreat, to chirp like a bird. [Also in later dictionaries].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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