Mother Careyn.

Brit.

/ˌmʌðə ˈkɛːri/, U.S.

/ˌməðər ˈkɛri/

Forms: 1700s Mother Caries (genitive), 1700s– Mother Carey, 1800s Mother Carew, 1800s– Mother Cary.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mother Carey.

Etymology: < the name of Mother Carey, a sea-spirit formerly believed in by sailors (origin uncertain; perhaps after (as partial translation) post-classical Latin Mater Cara or Italian Madre Cara (1364), both in sense ‘dear mother’, as an epithet of the Virgin Mary; or perhaps a superstitious alteration (noa word) of an earlier (but unattested) *Mother Mary).E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (1895) 863/2 adduces a French parallel oiseau de Notre Dame in sense 1.

Originally Nautical.

1. Mother Carey's chicken n. (also U.S. regional Mother Carey chicken) a storm petrel (family Hydrobatidae), thought by sailors to be a harbinger of bad weather.In quot. 1864 in plural: †falling snow (obsolete); cf. the phrase Mother Carey is plucking her goose: it is snowing (cited in E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (1895) 864/1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)

devil's bird1634

sea-swallow1647

storm-finch1661

assilag1698

storm-bird1752

devil bird1759

Mother Carey's chicken1767

storm finch1768

witch1770

alamootiea1777

stormy petrel1776

water witch1794

spency1813

storm-petrel1833

stilt stormy petrel1884

Tom Tailor1885

1767 P. Carteret in J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. (1773) I. 318 The peterels, to which sailors have given the name of Mother Carey's Chickens.

1788 R. Haswell in F. W. Howay Voy. Columbia (1941) 19 We saw..Albatroses mother Caries chickings and a fue other birds.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 3 All this comes from your croaking—you're a Mother Cary's chicken.

1864 Athenæum 558/2 ‘Mother Cary's Chickens’, the sailors' slang for snow..‘Mother Cary’ being the Mater cara..of the Levantine sailors.

1877 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 443 No ships visible anywhere over the wide ocean; no company but Mother Cary's chickens wheeling, darting, skimming the waves in the sun.

1948 T. Raddall Tambour & Other Stories 9 Hosts of sea birds—gulls, terns, Mother Carey's chickens, plover, puffins which the Hennessys called ‘sea-parrots’—nesting in the peat or in the crannies of the sheer cliffs.

1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) at Mother Carey's chicken Mother Carey chicken—comes only before storm, an ocean bird, seems to walk on water.

1975 Montreal Star 6 Aug. B2/4 The islands are covered with wild blueberries and raspberries, rabbits and pheasants and Mother Carey's chickens, little black birds that burrow into the ground to make nests.

1990 H. Thurston Tidal Life 130/2 On the water, these swallow-sized..birds, known to sailors as Mother Carey's chickens, literally seem to dance across the ocean.

2. attributive and in the possessive. Designating any of various petrels (see quot. 1772²). Mother Carey('s) bird n. poetic (probably) = Mother Carey's chicken n. at sense 1.

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1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 3 Jan. (1955) I. 39 Saw several Birds of a light grey Colour..the Mother Caries kind.

1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 4 Oct. (1982) I. 173 Small birds of the petrel tribe, which all go under the name of Mother Carey's swallows among the seamen.

1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1982) II. 203 It must be observed that the sailors call all the Procellarias, Mother Cary's chickens, fowls, ducks, pigeons, geese etc. in proportion to their size.

1828 Freedom's Jrnl. 12 Sept. We could see nothing but here and there a solitary chicken of mother Cary's brood, which would light upon a wave, and then fly away.

1876 H. Melville Clarel II. iii. xxix. 424 Small does he show.., small and far off As Mother-Cary's bird in den Of Cape Horn's hollowing billow-trough.

1936 J. Masefield Let. from Pontus 88 No more word Came from that roving soul Than comes from the Mother Carey bird That nests at the South Pole.

†3. Mother Carey's goose n. Obsolete a giant petrel (genus Macronectes, family Procellariidae).

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1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1982) II. 203 Capt Cook..called it Mother Cary's goose.

1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 123 Mother Carey's geese, or the great peterel... The great peterel is as large as the common albatross and is carnivorous.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 486 Mother Cary's Goose, the name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea.

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

单词	mother carey
释义	Mother Careyn. Brit. /ˌmʌðə ˈkɛːri/, U.S. /ˌməðər ˈkɛri/ Forms: 1700s Mother Caries (genitive), 1700s– Mother Carey, 1800s Mother Carew, 1800s– Mother Cary. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mother Carey. Etymology: < the name of Mother Carey, a sea-spirit formerly believed in by sailors (origin uncertain; perhaps after (as partial translation) post-classical Latin Mater Cara or Italian Madre Cara (1364), both in sense ‘dear mother’, as an epithet of the Virgin Mary; or perhaps a superstitious alteration (noa word) of an earlier (but unattested) Mother Mary).E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable* (1895) 863/2 adduces a French parallel oiseau de Notre Dame in sense 1. Originally Nautical. 1. Mother Carey's chicken n. (also U.S. regional Mother Carey chicken) a storm petrel (family Hydrobatidae), thought by sailors to be a harbinger of bad weather.In quot. 1864 in plural: †falling snow (obsolete); cf. the phrase Mother Carey is plucking her goose: it is snowing (cited in E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (1895) 864/1). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel) devil's bird1634 sea-swallow1647 storm-finch1661 assilag1698 storm-bird1752 devil bird1759 Mother Carey's chicken1767 storm finch1768 witch1770 alamootiea1777 stormy petrel1776 water witch1794 spency1813 storm-petrel1833 stilt stormy petrel1884 Tom Tailor1885 1767 P. Carteret in J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. (1773) I. 318 The peterels, to which sailors have given the name of Mother Carey's Chickens. 1788 R. Haswell in F. W. Howay Voy. Columbia (1941) 19 We saw..Albatroses mother Caries chickings and a fue other birds. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 3 All this comes from your croaking—you're a Mother Cary's chicken. 1864 Athenæum 558/2 ‘Mother Cary's Chickens’, the sailors' slang for snow..‘Mother Cary’ being the Mater cara..of the Levantine sailors. 1877 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 443 No ships visible anywhere over the wide ocean; no company but Mother Cary's chickens wheeling, darting, skimming the waves in the sun. 1948 T. Raddall Tambour & Other Stories 9 Hosts of sea birds—gulls, terns, Mother Carey's chickens, plover, puffins which the Hennessys called ‘sea-parrots’—nesting in the peat or in the crannies of the sheer cliffs. 1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) at Mother Carey's chicken Mother Carey chicken—comes only before storm, an ocean bird, seems to walk on water. 1975 Montreal Star 6 Aug. B2/4 The islands are covered with wild blueberries and raspberries, rabbits and pheasants and Mother Carey's chickens, little black birds that burrow into the ground to make nests. 1990 H. Thurston Tidal Life 130/2 On the water, these swallow-sized..birds, known to sailors as Mother Carey's chickens, literally seem to dance across the ocean. 2. attributive and in the possessive. Designating any of various petrels (see quot. 1772²). Mother Carey('s) bird n. poetic (probably) = Mother Carey's chicken n. at sense 1. ΚΠ 1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 3 Jan. (1955) I. 39 Saw several Birds of a light grey Colour..the Mother Caries kind. 1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 4 Oct. (1982) I. 173 Small birds of the petrel tribe, which all go under the name of Mother Carey's swallows among the seamen. 1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1982) II. 203 It must be observed that the sailors call all the Procellarias, Mother Cary's chickens, fowls, ducks, pigeons, geese etc. in proportion to their size. 1828 Freedom's Jrnl. 12 Sept. We could see nothing but here and there a solitary chicken of mother Cary's brood, which would light upon a wave, and then fly away. 1876 H. Melville Clarel II. iii. xxix. 424 Small does he show.., small and far off As Mother-Cary's bird in den Of Cape Horn's hollowing billow-trough. 1936 J. Masefield Let. from Pontus 88 No more word Came from that roving soul Than comes from the Mother Carey bird That nests at the South Pole. †3. Mother Carey's goose n. Obsolete a giant petrel (genus Macronectes, family Procellariidae). ΚΠ 1772 J. R. Forster Resol. Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1982) II. 203 Capt Cook..called it Mother Cary's goose. 1838 E. A. Poe Narr. A. G. Pym in Wks. (1864) IV. 123 Mother Carey's geese, or the great peterel... The great peterel is as large as the common albatross and is carnivorous. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 486 Mother Cary's Goose, the name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1767
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