| 单词 | mouse-catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmouse-catcher mouse-catcher n. (a) a person or animal that catches mice; †(b) derogatory a deceiver, a trickster (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that catches mice mouser1440 mouse-catcher1611 the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] owleOE howlec1430 mouser1440 howletc1450 nightbirdc1450 owlet1542 night owl1581 jenny-howlet1600 tu-whit tu-whoo1604 Welsh ambassador1608 mouse-catcher1611 Welsh falconera1640 hooter1673 hobhouchin1682 flying-cat1699 houchin1746 jumbie bird1827 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > animal hunting mice mouser1440 mouse-hunt1597 mouse-catcher1611 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > defined by actions or habitat mouser1440 mouse-taker?c1475 mouse-catcher1611 Kilkenny cat1822 spitfire1825 alley cat1886 stray1892 tiler1905 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Souricier, a Mouser, or Mouse-catcher. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. 153 Those Popish Muscipulatores or Mice-catchers, as the story calleth them, that raked together their Peter-pence, and other moneys here in England by most detestable arts. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) viii. xiii. 342 Pardon..my speaking of cats and kings in the same page; but when kings turn mice-catchers, it must diminish their dignity. 1899 Living Age 26 Aug. 549/2 Some of the brown owls make their habitat there. The circumstance has not, I fancy, been noticed..so that the mouse-catchers are in comparative security. 1958 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 17 May He believes that there are two distinct species of weasel—one of which is extremely small and which he calls the ‘mouse-catcher’. < as lemmas |
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