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单词 pinc-pinc
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pinc-pincn.

Brit. /ˈpɪŋkpɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋkˌpɪŋk/, South African English /ˈpɪŋkpɪŋk/
Forms: 1800s pink-pinkje, 1800s– pinc-pinc.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Ultimately imitative of the bird's call. Compare South African Dutch pink-pinkje , Afrikaans pink-pinkie . Compare tinktinkie n.Perhaps compare also Dutch regional (north Brabant) pink jacksnipe.
South African.
Any of several small South African warblers of the family Sylviidae; esp. the cloud cisticola, Cisticola textrix.
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c1808 tr. J. F. Gmelin Linnaeus's Syst. Nat. Hist. (rev. ed.) VIII. 461 The Pinc-pinc. This is one of the smallest birds of Africa; in size and manners very like the wren..in continual motion,..uttering its note of pinc-pinc, pinc-pinc, pinc-pinc, the whole time. The children at the Cape call it the pinc-pinc from its note.
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xii. 217 The Pinc-pinc of Africa..has a similar custom, constructing a supplementary roosting-place upon the nest.
1896 J. Wood in Scientific African Mar. 76 The obtrusive ‘pink-pinkje’ (D. Tetrix) was also there.
1901 A. C. Stark & W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. II. 147 The Pinc-pinc appears to be confined to the south western parts of the Colony.
1931 Guide to Vertebrate Fauna E. Cape Prov. (Albany Museum) I. 109 Cisticola ayresii..Little Pinc-pinc Warbler, Striped Grass-Warbler, Cloud Warbler.
1973 J. Cowden For Love 66 There are cisticolas that are: Fantail,..Moustache, Pinc-pinc, Zulu Reed,..right down to the Lazy Cisticola!
1984 D. B. Bosman et al. Bilingual Dict. 1087/1 Pinc-pinc, dirk-dirk, dirkdirkie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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