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单词 murdering pie
释义

murdering pien.

Forms: see murdering adj. and pie n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: murdering adj., pie n.1
Etymology: < murdering adj. + pie n.1, as alteration of murdering bird n. or independently after post-classical Latin lanius (see murdering bird n.).
English regional. Obsolete.
The great grey shrike or butcher-bird, Lanius excubitor. Cf. murdering bird n.
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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).
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