单词 | mutton-bird |
释义 | mutton-birdn. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. 1. Any of various shearwaters and petrels of the southern oceans whose flesh when cooked is said to resemble mutton in flavour; esp. (a) either of two birds of the genus Puffinus, (in New Zealand) the sooty shearwater, P. griseus, and (in Australia) the short-tailed shearwater P. tenuirostris; (b) an Antarctic petrel of the genus Pterodroma. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) petrel1602 mutton-bird1790 procellariid1879 the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Puffinus (shearwater) > other types cohow1615 pimlico1615 mutton-bird1846 Audubon1909 1790 R. Clark MS Jrnl. 28 Aug. in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) (at cited word) A Box for my beloved woman, Containing..a Mount Pit Bird, a Mutton Bird. 1824 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 176 This [Petrel] we believe is the species called in Norfolk Island, Mutton Bird. 1846 G. H. Haydon Five Years Austral. Felix 47 The mutton-bird, or sooty petrel..is about the size of the wood-pigeon of England, and is of a dark colour. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) ii. 63 The ground resembles a rabbit warren, being everywhere undermined by the burrows of the Mutton Bird (Puffinus brevicaudus). 1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xxvii. 358 ‘Mutton birds’. This latter delicacy is a great staple of their [sc. the Maoris'] flesh food... When it is being cooked..by grilling, it smells exactly like a piece of roasting mutton. 1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 202 The other day as we opened the mutton-bird burrows, I heard you remonstrate with our lads. 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways v. 27 The mutton birds make underground nesting burrows. 1952 E. C. Richards Chatham Islands 84 Muttonbirds were so called from their fancied flavour of mutton. 1970 Southerly 30 226 The children saw countless thousands of mutton birds passing over the farm, returning..to their nesting colonies on the Bass Strait coasts. 1994 New Scientist 16 Apr. 54/4 Very tasty with a bit of puha, and better than muttonbird any day. 2. slang (humorous or derogatory). A Tasmanian; esp. a non-Aboriginal inhabitant of northern Tasmania. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1892 Truth (Sydney) 19 June 4/7 North Tasmanians resent being nicknamed Mutton birds. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 546/1 Mutton-Bird (gen. pl.), a resident in North Tasmania: Southern Tasmanians'. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 48 Mutton-bird, a resident of Northern Tasmania. 1983 Sun (Melbourne) 23 Mar. 9 Very early we devised names for people from various states—West Australians were Sandgropers.., Tasmanians Muttonbirds. Compounds mutton-bird eater n. slang = sense 2. ΚΠ 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 48 Mutton-bird, a resident of Northern Tasmania. Also, ‘mutton-bird eater’. mutton-bird gale n. Australian a seasonal gale coinciding with the annual arrival of flocks of mutton-birds to nest on the Tasmanian coast and islands of the Bass Strait; (hence also) a flock of mutton-birds; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1910 F. M. Littler Handbk. Birds Tasmania 167 The birds commence to come in for laying purposes just a few minutes after sunset. Just at this time of the year heavy gales usually blow, which are known as ‘Mutton-bird gales’. 1954 A. Moorehead Rum Jungle ix. 133 It is usually in a gale (known as the ‘mutton bird gale’)..that the main swarm suddenly appears. 1957 Sydney Morning Herald 10 Nov. 41/1 Down in Bass Strait they are awaiting the Mutton Bird Gales, one of nature's most majestic and mysterious phenomena. Beginning about November 17, millions of mutton birds will come whirling up the strait. 1980 H. W. Cummings Confessions of ‘Mud Skipper’ 42 As we ran for Bass Strait it turned into a full ‘mutton bird gale’. mutton-bird tree n. New Zealand any of various tree-daisies (olearias) found on Stewart Island, New Zealand (cf. mutton-bird scrub n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens pine1788 angophora1804 ohia1815 pate1832 pohutukawa1832 Moreton Bay chestnut1836 Olearia1839 horopito1847 ramarama1848 matipo1853 white pine1856 musk tree1866 manoao1867 patete1867 puka1867 rangiora1867 tawhiri1872 tarata1876 lemon-wood1879 Otago ivy-tree1883 horizontal1888 lehua1888 inanga1889 mountain pine1889 puka1889 Queensland kauri1889 sheep-bush1889 wilga1889 mutton-bird tree1891 tree-daisy1926 1891 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1890 23 494 This tree [sc. Olearia] is known in Stewart Island as the mutton-bird tree. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 310/1 Mutton-bird Tree..so called because the mutton-birds, especially in Foveaux Straits, New Zealand, are fond of sitting under it. 1979 E. Wilson Titi Heritage 64 The ‘muttonbird trees’ (Olearias) have a very limited life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mutton-birdv. Australian and New Zealand. intransitive. To catch or prepare mutton-birds for eating. ΚΠ 1850 in B. H. Howard Rakiura (1940) 386 Nearly all the residents [of Stewart Island] off ‘mutton-birding’. 1918 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1917 50 144 This most interesting specimen was captured..where Mr. Smith was mutton-birding. 1934 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 3 60 They support themselves after desultory fashion by ‘mutton birding’ during a portion of the year. 1944 J. H. Beattie Maori Place-names Otago 84 A taua (grandmother) narrated:—I have been muttonbirding on Horo-mamae (Owen Island)... I have also gone muttonbirding on Potoma (Evening Island). 1945 Austral. Week-end Bk. 9 I've heard of snake-bite, but never witnessed it while mutton-birding. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790v.1850 |
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