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单词 pickehorn
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pickehornn.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Bycorne n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of Bycorne n., after pick n.1 (compare forms at that entry) and horn n.
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of monster; perhaps = Bycorne n.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > that eat husbands or wives
Chichevachec1405
Bycornec1430
pickehornc1580
c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 30 Hermafrodites, herkinnalsous, Eatous, pickehornes, & lestrigoni.
c1580 tr. Bugbears iv. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 35 Some Bugbeare, or Pickehorn, or Gogmagog is there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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