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单词 muffrone
释义

muffronen.

Forms: 1800s muffro, 1800s muffrone.
Origin: A borrowing from Corsican. Etymon: Corsican mufrone.
Etymology: < Corsican mufrone (see mouflon n.). Compare earlier muffle n.4 N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciations as (mu·fro) /ˈmufro/ and (mufrō·ne) /mufˈfrone/.
Obsolete.
The mouflon, Ovis orientalis. Cf. muffle n.4
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis musimon (moufflon)
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 643 The Tardinians [sic] call these beasts Mufflo, and Erim Mufflo..& this beast at this day is not found but in Sardinia.
1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 382 In Corsica the Argali is known by the name of Mufro; where it is so wild as to be rarely taken alive.]
1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan II. iv. viii. 327 Those islanders [sc. Corsicans]..shoot a man with no more compunction than they shoot a muffro.
1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan III. iv. xiii. 52 I had wondered..whether he would like to shoot the muffrone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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