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单词 goldspink
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goldspinkn.

Brit. /ˈɡəʊl(d)spɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊl(d)ˌspɪŋk/, Scottish English /ˈɡol(d)spɪŋk/
Forms:

α. 1700s– goldspink; English regional (chiefly northern) 1800s gooldspink, 1800s goudspink, 1800s gouldspink, 1900s– gowldspink; Scottish pre-1700 goldspink, pre-1700 goldspynk, 1700s– gowdspink, 1800s gooldspink, 1800s gowspink, 1800s– goudspink.

β. Scottish and Irish English (northern) 1800s gowdspring, 1800s– goldspring, 1800s– gooldspring.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gold n.1, spink n.1
Etymology: < gold n.1 + spink n.1 Compare earlier goldfinch n.Specific senses. With sense 2 compare Swedish regional gulspink , in the same sense (late 18th cent.; with first element gul yellow: see yellow adj.). Specific forms. The β. forms apparently show remodelling after spring v.1
Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern).
1. The European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis.Originally confined to Scottish sources; from the 19th cent. also found in various (chiefly northern) English regional and Northern Irish contexts.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis carduelis (goldfinch)
goldfincheOE
goldspinka1522
carduel?1530
thistle-finch1589
thistlewarp1598
fool's coata1682
grey pate1728
tailor-warbler1783
redcap1785
sheriff's man1796
goldie?1800
King Harry1824
sweet-william1848
tailor1848
thistle-bird1872
thistle-feeder1904
α.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. l. 240 Goldspynk and lyntquhite fordynnand the lyft.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The grene serene sang sueit quhen the gold spynk chantit.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) sig. A2 Where nightingals their nots renews With gallant Goldspinks gay.
1710 G. Liddell Swan's Song (ed. 10) ii. 12 When we behold the Gold Spink gay, With Colours deck'd so fine, Should we not spread our Maker's praise, On Things that are Divine?
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 37 Nansy's to the Green Wood gane, To hear the Gowdspink chatring.
1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 356 The gowdspink, Music's gayest child.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Goud-spink, gold-finch.
1842 R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (new ed.) 50 The king sent his lady on the sixth Yule day, Three goldspinks, three starlings, a goose that was grey, Three plovers, three partridges, and a pippin go aye.
1864 J. C. Shairp Kilmahoe 28 A flight of goldspinks light, Some wintry day on a thistly field.
1880 W. Shelley in D. H. Edwards 100 Mod. Sc. Poets 1st Ser. 140 How heartsome the gowdspinks chirmed, ‘Sweet, laddie, sweet’!
1955 H. Williamson in Country Life 1 Dec. 1249/3 The goldspinks (goldfinches), the crimson and gold King Harries of East Anglia.
2009 P. McIntosh Stolen Voice vi. 113 Last week there was two gowdspinks eating the thistles there, all red and yellow, right bonnie they were.
β. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gowdspring, the provincial name for the goldfinch, Lanarks[hire].1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Goldspring, gooldspring, a goldfinch.1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 150/1 Goldspink, goldspring, gooldspring, the goldfinch.
2. English regional (Yorkshire). The yellowhammer, Emberiza citronella. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza citrinella (yellow-hammer)
yellowhammer1538
yellow ham1544
yowlring1544
goldhammer1611
yellow-pate1612
yellow ambird1657
yorling1679
yoldring1699
goldspink1785
yowley1797
yite1812
devil's bird1837
writing master1840
ammer1843
goldie1865
1785 Gentleman's Mag. July 534/2 Many birds and animals seem to have particular names in these parts [sc. north Yorkshire];..yellow-hammers, [being called] gold spinks, and also yellow youlrings.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 332 Goldspink, the bird, yellowhammer.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Goldspink, the bird yellow-hammer.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 53/1 Goldspink, gowldspink, the Goldfinch..; sometimes also goldie. Both these names are sometimes given by ignorant boys and others to the Yellow Hammer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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