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单词 sea-maw
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sea-mawn.

Forms: Middle English semawe, semow, 1500s semaw, 1600s– sea-maw.
Etymology: maw n.3Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-maw.
Now dialect.
= seamew n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
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c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 641/1 Hec fuliga, semawe.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 452/2 Semow, bryd, aspergo.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 110 Et ibi nidificant aues vocate Ganettys gullys see mewys et ceteras aues marinas.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 178 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 The se mawis war monkis ye blak & ye quhyte.
1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. D7 De Folica..Anglicè a white semaw with a black cop.
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H3v The greedy seamaw fishing for the fry.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 153 Like sea-maws and clack-geese before a storm.
Sc. Proverb.1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 118 Give your own Sea Maws your own Fish Guts. If you have any Superfluities give them to your poor Relations.1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 325 Ye ken my gudeman likes to ride the expresses himsel—we maun gie our ain fish-guts to our ain sea-maws.1895 P. H. Hunter James Inwick xix Na, na, we'll keep oor ain fish guts for oor ain sea maws!
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