| 单词 | jug, jug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjug, jug An imitative representation of one of the notes of the nightingale, and some other birds, usually repeated as jug, jug; hence, used as a name for this note. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > other types of sound jug1523 gabbling1599 bumping1646 gobbling1737 come-back1872 the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [interjection] > imitation of call of bird cockc1405 jug, jug1523 pewewea1525 te-whita1529 twit1602 sweet-sweet1606 weet-weet1808 weet1863 whee-oh1892 spink1898 tweet1992 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > luscinia megarhynchos (nightingale) > sound made by jug, jug1523 tereu1576 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell in Wks. (1843) I. 401 To here this nightingale,..Warbelynge in the vale, Dug, dug, Iug, iug,..With chuk, chuk, chuk, chuk! 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. P.iiii The next note to hir phy Is Iug, Iug, Iug, I gesse. 1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 261 Nothing, however, can be more marked than the note of a nightingale called its jug. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxxi. 624 The ‘jug-jug’ of one Nightingale is sure to set singing all others within hearing. < as lemmas |
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