† mattagessn.

Forms: 1500s matagasse, 1600s matagesse, 1700s mattagess, 1800s mattages.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French matagasse, matogasse, motagasse.

Etymology: < French regional (eastern) and Swiss French matagasse (Savoie, Vaud), matogasse (Maîche), motagasse (Jura), perhaps < an unrecorded Old Occitan compound of matar mate v.¹ + agasa magpie (see haggess n.).

Obsolete.

The great grey shrike, Lanius excubitor.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius excubitor

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French pie1674

grey pie1678

murdering pie1688

white whisky john1772

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 72 Though the Matagasse be a Hawke of none accompte, or price, neyther with vs in any vse.

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 85 The Matagesse or great Butcherbird.

1710 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 465 Mr. Bellers..gave Dr. Woodward this..Catalogue of Birds killed..in Gloucestershire.., which he saith are never found there in moderate Winters. 1. Lanius cinereus major. The Greater Butcher-Bird, or Mattagess.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The word Mattagess is borrowed from the Savoyards, and signifies the murdering pye.

1805 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 3) II. 224 (note) Synonyms [for the great shrike].—..Mattages, Wierangle, Murdering-bird, Shreek or Shrike, [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	mattagess
释义	† mattagessn. Forms: 1500s matagasse, 1600s matagesse, 1700s mattagess, 1800s mattages. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French matagasse, matogasse, motagasse. Etymology: < French regional (eastern) and Swiss French matagasse (Savoie, Vaud), matogasse (Maîche), motagasse (Jura), perhaps < an unrecorded Old Occitan compound of matar mate v.¹ + agasa magpie (see haggess n.). Obsolete. The great grey shrike, Lanius excubitor. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius excubitor mattagess1575 French pie1674 grey pie1678 murdering pie1688 white whisky john1772 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 72 Though the Matagasse be a Hawke of none accompte, or price, neyther with vs in any vse. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 85 The Matagesse or great Butcherbird. 1710 Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 465 Mr. Bellers..gave Dr. Woodward this..Catalogue of Birds killed..in Gloucestershire.., which he saith are never found there in moderate Winters. 1. Lanius cinereus major. The Greater Butcher-Bird, or Mattagess. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The word Mattagess is borrowed from the Savoyards, and signifies the murdering pye. 1805 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 3) II. 224 (note) Synonyms [for the great shrike].—..Mattages, Wierangle, Murdering-bird, Shreek or Shrike, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1575
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