单词 | meggie |
释义 | Meggien. Scottish and English regional (northern). 1. Meggie-many-feet n. (also Meggie-many-legs and variants) a centipede or millipede; (rarely) another animal with many legs, as a crab or lobster. Cf. Meg-many-feet n. at Meg n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] maggie-many-feet1784 Meggie-many-feet1825 Myriapoda1828 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Meggy-Monyfeet, the centipede. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words (ed. 2) in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) Meggy-Monny-Legs, a lively insect often seen on garden walks—millepes. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (1849) 327 Some of these [Myriapods] are more popularly known as ‘Meggy-mony-feet’. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Meggy-monyfeet, the chocolate-coloured centipede. The form is also meg-o'-many-feet. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 209 Meggie Monyfeet, the centipede. 2. Meggie-lickie-spinnie n. (also Meggie-spinnie) a spider. Meggie-web n. a spider's web; gossamer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) lopc888 attercopc1000 lobc1000 spinnerc1220 araina1300 spider1340 yraync1384 copa1400 spincop1474 copspin1484 ettercapa1525 web-weaver1534 spinster1636 cob1657 weaver1825 araneidan1835 Meggie-lickie-spinnie1849 silk-spinner1868 orbitele1890 1849 Montrose Standard 2 Nov. 8 Ye meggie-lickie-spinnie tow! Ye upsettin' gameramus, 'at wud daur to insult an auld man. c1914 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. [East Dumfries] Meggie-wob. 1927 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. [Banff.] Meggie-spinnie. 1962 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. [Banff.] Meggie-spinnie. 1962 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. [Kirkcudbright] Meggie-wob. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 317 Spider, [Dumfries] Meggie. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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