| 单词 | blackie |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackie 2. Chiefly in form blackie: a black bird; esp. (British) the blackbird, Turdus merula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus merula (blackbird) ouzeleOE blackbirdc1350 merula1398 merle1483 black-mack1519 blackie1841 1841 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Apr. 136 A blackbird began to make his meal on it..; then came three sparrows, and fairly drove blacky away. 1876 Mrs. Francis in W. W. Skeat S. Warwickshire Words 124 Blackie, a blackbird. 1890 A. J. Armstrong Ingleside Musings 84 I listen to the blackie's note. 1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Aug. 13/2 The black cockatoo..is the best meteorologist in the bush…Wherever I see the blackies flying inland I can safely bet on wet and squally weather. 1940 F. Kitchen Brother to Ox i. 3 Every bush along the carriage drive owned a blackie or a thrush. 1996 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 30 June 14/5 Why would they [sc. gulls] have attacked the baby blackie? < as lemmas |
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