| 单词 | house bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse bird house bird n. (a) a person who stays in or about the house; (in early use) a cowardly or unadventurous person; (later) a woman who devotes herself to domestic duties (now rare); (b) any bird that nests in or about a house or other building; (also) a domestic or pet bird.Cf. earlier house dove n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person house dove1579 houseling1598 house bird1601 home-sittera1657 housekeepera1741 Sunday man1769 homester1819 homebird1821 homebody1821 stay-at-home1836 homeboy1847 homegirl1847 stay-putter1927 1601 E. Aggas tr. A. Arnauld First Sauoyan 28 in tr. True Disc. Queenes Voy. The..opinion..detained a number [of men] in their houses. But if his Maiestie..would find meanes to discerne the house-birds from the true Gentlemen, whose seruice [etc.]. 1615 T. Adams Lycanthropy 24 in Blacke Devill The house-bird, the Sparrow, the Embleme of an incontinent and hote adulterer. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. 112 She flys about the room, as if she had wings instead of legs; I believe she's just turning into a bird: a house-bird I warrant her. 1720 T. Boston Human Nature vii. 391 They make themselves Wings, and fly away; not as a tame House Bird, which may be catcht again. 1852 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Aug. 347/2 She was very much of a house-bird... In the evenings, while her sister was dashing off some brilliant bravura in the drawing-room, Jane would be seated in a corner. 1898 W. E. D. Scott Bird Stud. 19 This [sc. Bewick's Wren], too, is a house bird, and..selects building places similar to those of the House Wren. 1905 Daily Chron. 10 July 8/5 I want to be moving. You can't understand that sort of thing, can you, you little house-bird? 2004 M. Chabon Final Solution (2005) 97 Despite its wild origin in..Africa, Bruno was a house bird, cultivated and tamed. < as lemmas |
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