单词 | mewer |
释义 | † mewern.1 Falconry. Obsolete. rare. A hawk which is in moult or about to moult. Cf. intermewer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > young > in first year mewera1475 carvist1674 a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 19 If it [sc. thi hawke] be a mewere put here [in mewe] in the month of Januare. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 236/2 A Mewer, or Mewed Hawk..are so called from December to the middle of May. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2019). mewern.2 rare. An animal (esp. a cat) which mews; (also, in extended use) a person who catcalls. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] cata800 bad?a1325 gibc1400 baudrons?a1500 house cat?1527 puss-cata1529 puss1533 puss1598 mewer1611 mewler1611 Tibert1616 malkina1627 grimalkin1630 meower1632 miauler1632 pussycat1698 pussy1699 tigerkin1849 moggie1911 pussums1912 mog1926 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > one who disapproves > by sound or exclamation hisserc1440 mewer1611 catcall1714 booer1904 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Miauleur, a mewler, or mewer. 1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 49 Jew, I would have thee know, I am..a mewer of Playes, a jeerer of Poets [etc.]. 1886 Overland Monthly 8 506 I hasked for tick and them wouldn't give it to me, for the fore quarter of a mewer, what they said was rabbit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mewern.3 Obsolete. rare. A person who mews or confines someone. (In quot. with up.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > action of > one who confines mewer1625 incarcerator1820 cager1889 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. viii. vi. 1270 They were..; iealous mewers vp of their wiues. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1a1475n.21611n.31625 |
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