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单词 shriek-owl
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shriek-owln.

Forms: Also 1500s schrick-, 1600s scrick-, 1600s shreike-.
Etymology: < shriek v. + owl n. Compare screech owl n., shritch-owl n.
Obsolete.
The screech-owl.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl)
shritch?a1500
scritch owl1510
shritch-owl1538
strich1552
screech owl1567
shriek-owl1567
madge?1576
lich-owl1585
lich-fowl1611
jill-hooter1668
white owl1672
barn owl1674
church owl1678
aluco1753
padge1848
cherubim1864
squinch-owl1880
monkey-facec1940
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 94 A certaine Shrickowle or Owlet which when she crieth, she shricketh.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 283 Fowle Goblins and Shriekowles, With fearfull howling do all places fill.
1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4v The Rauen & Shreikeowle there did build their neasts.
1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 399/2 Wee are with Men our Brothers, and not with Stockes, Wood, Wolues and Scrick-Ooles.
a1764 R. Lloyd Progr. Envy in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 145 Shriek-owls and ravens, whose fell croaking bodes Approaching death to miserable wight.
1913 Sir R. Ross in Eng. Rev. Sept. 168 No sound; Save haply the shriek-owl cryes.
attributive.1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cxxii. 383 Thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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