| 单词 | mother carey's chicken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMother Carey's chicken 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).extracted from Mother Careyn.< as lemmas |
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