单词 | jelly-dog |
释义 | > as lemmasjelly-dog jelly-dog n. slang a harrier (so called from being used to hunt hares, which are eaten with currant jelly); hence jelly-dogging, hunting with harriers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > coursing coursec1405 the leash1526 coursinga1552 jelly-dogging1889 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > harrier harrier1542 currant-jelly dog1851 jelly-dog1889 1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 20 You..would prefer a gallop with the Quorn..to a day's ‘jelly dogging’. 1897 W. E. Norris Marietta's Marriage 4 We have no hounds hereabouts, except the jelly-dogs. < as lemmas |
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