单词 | murdering pie |
释义 | † murdering pien. English regional. Obsolete. The great grey shrike or butcher-bird, Lanius excubitor. Cf. murdering bird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius excubitor mattagess1575 French pie1674 grey pie1678 murdering pie1688 white whisky john1772 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 235/1 This bird is of some called a Wierangle, and a Grey Pie, or a Murthering Pie, or a french Pie. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Mattagess The word Mattagess is borrowed from the Savoyards, and signifies the murdering pye. 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 Great grey shrike... Butcher bird,..Murdering pie. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1688 |
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