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单词 greybitch
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greybitchn.

Forms: Middle English graibichche, Middle English grayebicche, Middle English grebicche, Middle English grebyccche, Middle English grebyche, Middle English greybitch, 1500s grayebytche, 1600s graybitch. N.E.D. (1900) also records a form Middle English grebytch.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: greyhound n., bitch n.1
Etymology: < grey- (in greyhound n.) + bitch n.1 Perhaps compare Old Icelandic grey-baka bitch.
Obsolete.
A female greyhound. Cf. greyhound bitch n. at greyhound n. Compounds 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound
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grifhound13..
greybitchc1330
grew-hound?a1400
greundc1420
long-tail1576
Grecian dog1607
fleet-hound1675
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 1665 A grai bichche þi louer ginnez louie.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxvi. 1168 In bicches, mylk is founde many dayes tofore þe whelpynge and sonnere in grebyccches þan in oþere.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 5385 Ac onon, after þat wonder, Comen tigres many hundre, Graye-bicchen als it waren.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 890 Hym thouȝt þat his grebyche lay hym besyde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 155 Leuriére, a grayebytche.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 124 Milke-white Minks and Lun (Gray-bitches both, the best that ever run).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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