† oologizev.
Obsolete. rare.
1. intransitive. To collect birds' eggs.
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1868 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Almanac 1869 37/2 The only one I sometimes have savage doubts about is the red squirrel. I think he oölogizes, I know he eats cherries.
1868 Our Boys & Girls 26 Dec. 825/1 According to James Russell Lowell, boys do not rob birds' nests; they oölogize.
2. transitive. To take the eggs from (a bird or bird's nest).
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1868 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Almanac 1869 37/1 Once the children of a man employed about the place oölogized the nest, and the pewees left us for a year or two.
1887 W. H. Rideing Boyhood Famous Authors (1908) 148 But, though the boy had so much interest in them [sc. the birds], he never ‘oologized’ them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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