| 单词 | lady-clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslady-clock lady-clock n. [apparently < lady n. + clock n.3; compare earlier ladybird n. 3; neither the immediate source of quot. 1682, a Latin translation of Goedaert's work, nor the original Dutch work appear to show a corresponding word] English regional (northern) = ladybird n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Coccinellidae > member of (lady-bird) ladycow1583 golden knop1592 cow-lady1656 ladybird1673 lady-clock1682 lady fly1714 ladybeetle1766 ladybug1787 bishy barnabee1789 coccinella1815 soldier1848 Judycow1855 bishop1875 coccinellid1887 1682 tr. J. Goedaert Of Insects 108 These Animalls for the Elegancy of them, are called Lady-clocks. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. viii. 203 That was only a lady-clock, child, ‘flying away home’. 1896 Notes & Queries 4 Jan. 14/2 ‘Landlady’, as a name for the..ladybird, is unfamiliar to me; but I read that in Yorkshire they are called ‘lady clocks’. 1983 J. Wheatcroft Catherine 157 Edgar stood staring at me..bug-eyed as a lady-clock. < as lemmas |
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