单词 | maggie-many-feet |
释义 | > as lemmasmaggie-many-feet maggie-many-feet n. (also maggie-many-legs and variants) Scottish (in later use also English regional (north-eastern) and Irish English (northern)) = Meggie-many-feet n. at Meggie n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] maggie-many-feet1784 Meggie-many-feet1825 Myriapoda1828 1784 Gentleman's Mag. 2 506 We have many droll names of insects, as the Cloc, King-Colin, Horngloach, Maggy-with-the-Mony-Feet, etc. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 164 It is a little black beastie, about the size of my thoom nail. The country folks ca' them Clocks; and I believe, they ca' them also Maggy-wi'-the-mony-feet. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist ii. 35 It's a Maggy Monny Feet. c1920 G. B. Thomson in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. Wi' a thoosan maggie-mony-feets crawlin' doon yer back. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 310 Centipede, Maggie many feet, Maggie many legs. (Scotland and north-east England.) 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 214/2 Maggie-mony-feet,..1. a centipede. 2. a millipede. < as lemmas |
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