| 单词 | nigger goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnigger goose nigger goose n. U.S. regional (offensive now rare) a cormorant; esp. the double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > miscellaneous types of scout1596 violet cormorant1785 guanay1860 nigger goose1909 1909 Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 9 309 Phalacrocorax auritus... Double-crested cormorant... Local name: Nigger Goose. 1941 R. Faherty Big Old Sun 313 You can eat curlew, or kill duck or coot or niggergoose if they come flying out yonder. 1984 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts (1992) 319 Cormorants flew over, black, agile diving birds, which old fishermen across the South still like to call ‘nigger geese’ because they're dark and fly like geese. < as lemmas |
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