单词 | idle jack |
释义 | > as lemmasidle Jack idle Jack n. South African (see idle Dick n.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sphenoeacus grassbird?1740 idle Jack1884 idle Dick1901 1884 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. (rev. ed.) 281 It..will suffer itself to be taken with the hand rather than rise again; for this reason it has acquired the name of Idle Jack or Lazy Dick. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 458 Idle Jack, a local name in the Cape Colony for Sphenœacus africanus (Grass-bird). < as lemmas |
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