单词 | robin ruddock |
释义 | Robin ruddockn. English regional. The (European) robin, Erithacus rubecula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Erithacus > erithacus rubecula (robin) ruddockOE redbreasta1425 robineta1425 Robertc1430 robin redbreasta1525 robinc1550 Robin ruddock1554 Robin ruck1555 cock robin1710 robin breastie1824 1554 H. Hilarie Resurreccion of Masse sig. Biiij At your masse about the chalice your God ye throw And dandle hym vp & doune lyken Robyn Rodocke. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Fij Dyd you euer see two suche little Robin ruddockes. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. x. 61 Then sayd Sancho: By Saint Roque, our Mistres is as light as a Robin-ruddocke. 1639 in Glouc. Gloss. (1890) 201 Hee drew it as blith as a Robin reddocke: vizt. As a robin redbrest. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 128 Wrans an robin-riddicks Tell âll the cares o' God. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire 30 Robin-riddick, or Ruddock, redbreast. 1900 Rep. Trans. Devon Assoc. Advancem. Sci., Lit. & Art 32 67 Rabin urdick = a robin redbreast. ‘As peart as a rabin urdick on Cursmus Day’—expression used by Thomas Tratt... This is always the robin's name in the West, for ‘Robin Rudduck’ of other parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1554 |
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