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单词 shrewmouse
释义

shrewmousen.

/ˈʃruːmaʊs/
Forms: (Also with hyphen and as two words.) Plural shrewmice. Also 1500s–1600s shroue-, 1700s–1800s shrove-.
Etymology: < shrew n.1 + mouse n.
Any of the small insectivores of the genus Sorex or family Soricidæ; = shrew n.1
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1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Shrewmous, mus araneus, Mus cæcus.
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1596) 74 The shroue~mouse is an ill beast, and doth trouble and hurt mens cattell.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 535 This Shrew mouse is a little and light creature, which like a Spider climeth vp vpon any small threed, or vpon the edge of a sword.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 536 The places where the Shrew-mice hanteth.
1614 G. Markham Bull in Cheape & Good Husb. xxxix. 61 A Shrew Mouse, which is a Mouse with short vneven legges, and a long head, like a Swines, is a venemous thing.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 54 The shrew mouse inhabites old walls, heaps of stones, or holes in the earth.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus v. 177 Strangling rushes,..Where the shrew-mouse with pale throat Burrows.
1849 F. T. Dinsdale Gloss. Teesdale Shrove-mouse, the field mouse.
1872 Calverley Sad Mem. 7 The shrewmouse eyes me shudderingly, then flees;..why was I born a cat?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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