| 单词 | puck bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuck bird 2. The European nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus; = puckeridge n. 1. Also puck bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar) goat-milker1611 goatsucker1611 nighthawk1611 nightjar1630 dor-hawk1668 churn-owl1674 fern-owl1678 goat owl1766 eve-jara1793 puckeridgea1793 moth-hunter1816 wheel-bird1817 jar-owl1832 nightchurr1837 night-swallow1840 eve-churr1861 wheeler1862 scissors-grinder1875 puck1878 spinner1885 1878 Folk-lore Rec. 1 ii. 18 The fern-owl (Strix caprimulgus) is in the west of Sussex called the puck bird, or puck, which was an old Gothic word for Satan; and it probably received the name from a belief..that it is a mischievous sprite, which inflicts on calves and heifers a disease here called the ‘puck complaint’, and in some parts of England the ‘puckeridge’. 1883 Sawyer Sussex Nat. Hist. ii. 8 The ‘puck’ would fly before her, and she did not dare to cross its path. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 97 In many places..it is considered that animals either become blind or are infected with disease after being sucked [by the nightjar]. The country-people in West Sussex call..the bird itself ‘puck bird’. 1993 Times 3 June 7/7 Country folk still use the name goat-sucker among many others, including eve-jar, jar-owl, puck bird. < as lemmas |
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