单词 | bird fancier |
释义 | bird fanciern. Chiefly British. A person who keeps or breeds birds as a hobby or business. Occasionally also: a person with an interest in wild birds, a birdwatcher. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > bird-keeper or -breeder > bird-fancier bird fancier1709 the fancy1735 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon > one or those who fancy pigeons bird fancier1709 the fancy1735 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xix. 186 The Plate is handed about for the Relief of the poor Widow of some Deceas'd Bird-Fancier. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 234 This lady lodged at a bird-fancier's: next door but one to the celebrated mutton-pie shop. 1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors ix. 232 Few indeed would recognize a portrait of this English country gentleman, blond and blue-eyed, a bird-fancier. 1986 Canberra Times 10 Aug. Sunday Extra 16/7 Bird fanciers should bring binoculars. 2020 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 28 Feb. 23 Although there are still plenty of bird fanciers, there are now strict rules and laws which prevent the capture of wild birds. Compounds bird fancier's lung n. an inflammatory disorder of the lungs resulting from an allergic response to antigens in dust created by the feathers, droppings, etc., of birds. ΚΠ 1966 F. E. Hargreave et al. in Lancet 26 Feb. 445/1 We have shown that budgerigar antigens can also be added to the list of causes of a disease which resembles farmer's lung and for which we suggest the name ‘bird breeder's (fancier's) lung’. 1996 Guardian 16 Oct. i. 17/1 His discovery enabled recognition of a new group of allergic diseases..of which farmer's lung is the prototype; others, including bird fancier's lung, were subsequently identified. 2019 Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. Feather duvet lung is a rare subgroup of bird fancier's lung, caused by inhalation of organic dust from duck or goose feathers in duvets or pillows. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1709 |
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