单词 | hoopoe |
释义 | hoopoen. A bird of the family Upupidæ, esp. the typical Upupa epops, a south European species, which occasionally visits England, conspicuous by its variegated plumage and its large erectile crest; formerly called hoop n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > upupa epops (hoopoe) hoop1481 upupa1601 whooping bird1607 hoopoe1668 thuet1688 whoopcat1694 whoophooper1694 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 92 Upupa,..vernaculè an Hoopoop. 1675 J. Ray Dictionariolum Trilingue 27 This bird [the lapwing] by a great mistake hath been generally taken to be the upupa of the Antients, which is now by all acknowledged to be the Hoopo. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 177 The Upupa, the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 254/2 A Upupa..is in our country speech called a Whoophoo, or Whopee, or Hoopoe, and Howpe. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 222 Quirus, is a juggling Stone, found in the Nest of the Hoopoop. 1767 G. White Let. 9 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 30 The most unusual birds I ever observed in these parts were a pair of hoopoes. 1852 W. Smith Smaller Classical Dict. (1874) 417 Procne, accordingly, became a nightingale..Tereus a hoopoo. 1895 Daily News 5 Oct. 6/2 I saw to-day a pair of hoopoes on the road..I could see the beautiful orange crest of the male, with its black tip going up and down as he walked, and after he flew into the tree he continued his cry of ‘uup, uup’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1668 |
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