单词 | murdering bird |
释义 | † murdering birdn. English regional. Obsolete. A shrike; esp. the red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio, or the great grey shrike, L. excubitor. Cf. murdering pie n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) warianglec1386 nine-murder1544 shrike1544 butcherbird1666 murdering bird1666 nine-killer1778 larder bird1948 1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 170 Lanius, the Butcher, or murdering Bird. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Shrike—Cinereous Provincial. Mattages. Wierangle. Murdering-bird. Skreek, or Skrike. 1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 4 Lanius Excubitor..Wierangle, Murdering Bird, Murdering Pie, Skreek, Skrike,..or French Pie. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 47 Red-backed shrike... from its cruelty and voracity this bird is called Butcher bird, Murdering bird, Nine killer. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1666 |
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