mock-birdn.

Brit.

/ˈmɒkbəːd/, U.S.

/ˈmɑkˌbərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mock n.¹, bird n.

Etymology: < mock n.¹ + bird n. Compare slightly later mockingbird n.

a. A bird which mimics the calls of other birds; esp. (chiefly U.S.) = mockingbird n. 1a, 1b. Now rare.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus > mimus polyglottus (mocking-bird)

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1649 Perfect Descr. Virginia (1837) 15 One Bird we call the Mock-bird; for he will imitate all other Birds Notes.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 51. ⁋4 The Indian Fowl, called the Mock-Bird, who has no Note of his own.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 324 The American mock-bird.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 325 The mock bird is ever surest to please when it is most itself.

1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. iii From merry mock-bird's song.

1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 149 The Thrasher, or Mockbird.

a1854 C. A. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 13 The pretty mockbird with his borrowed notes Tells thee sweet truth.

1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 175 Mockingbird... [Also called] Mock bird.

1949 J. E. C. McFarlane Treasury Jamaican Poetry ii. 51 The Mock-bird's throat is a golden sea.

1956 Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc. 40 128 This species [Toxostoma rufum] is an occasional, though expert, imitator of the notes of other birds..Mockbird.

†b. figurative. Obsolete.

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1800 R. Southey Let. 8 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 40 Moses will be a very mock-bird as to languages.

1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. xiii. 34 Sweep these mere mock-birds of the despot's song From the tall bough where they have perch'd so long.

†2. British regional. Either of two Old World warblers, the blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, and the sedge warbler, Acrocephalus schoenoboenus. Cf. mock-nightingale n. Obsolete.

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1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 326 Mock Bird, a name applied to the Sedge Bird.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 582 The earlier English naturalists..wrote the name ‘Mock-bird’ [for ‘Mocking-bird’]; and in England either form..is occasionally given to the Blackcap..and the Sedge-bird.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mock-bird
释义	mock-birdn. Brit. /ˈmɒkbəːd/, U.S. /ˈmɑkˌbərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mock n.¹, bird n. Etymology: < mock n.¹ + bird n. Compare slightly later mockingbird n. 1. a. A bird which mimics the calls of other birds; esp. (chiefly U.S.) = mockingbird n. 1a, 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Mimidae > genus Mimus > mimus polyglottus (mocking-bird) mock-bird1649 mockingbird1676 mocker1774 1649 Perfect Descr. Virginia (1837) 15 One Bird we call the Mock-bird; for he will imitate all other Birds Notes. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 51. ⁋4 The Indian Fowl, called the Mock-Bird, who has no Note of his own. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 324 The American mock-bird. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 325 The mock bird is ever surest to please when it is most itself. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. iii From merry mock-bird's song. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 149 The Thrasher, or Mockbird. a1854 C. A. Southey Poet. Wks. (1867) 13 The pretty mockbird with his borrowed notes Tells thee sweet truth. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 175 Mockingbird... [Also called] Mock bird. 1949 J. E. C. McFarlane Treasury Jamaican Poetry ii. 51 The Mock-bird's throat is a golden sea. 1956 Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc. 40 128 This species [Toxostoma rufum] is an occasional, though expert, imitator of the notes of other birds..Mockbird. †b. figurative. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1800 R. Southey Let. 8 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 40 Moses will be a very mock-bird as to languages. 1823 Ld. Byron Island ii. xiii. 34 Sweep these mere mock-birds of the despot's song From the tall bough where they have perch'd so long. †2. British regional. Either of two Old World warblers, the blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, and the sedge warbler, Acrocephalus schoenoboenus. Cf. mock-nightingale n. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 326 Mock Bird, a name applied to the Sedge Bird. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 582 The earlier English naturalists..wrote the name ‘Mock-bird’ [for ‘Mocking-bird’]; and in England either form..is occasionally given to the Blackcap..and the Sedge-bird. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649
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