英语词汇“booby bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. More fully booby bird. Any of various large tropical seabirds comprising (or formerly included in) the genus Sula (family Sulidae), which typically breed in colonies on islands and coastal regions, and have white, black, and brown plumage. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. Sula n.Abbott's booby, blue-footed booby, masked booby, red-footed booby: see the first element.Perhaps with reference to a reputation for stupidity; cf. e.g. quots. 1634, 1904 and see etymology.

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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. iv. 416 Of Fowles are Pellicans, white, as bigge as Swannes, with a large and long bill; Hearnes, Curlews, Boobies, Oxe-eyes, with diuers strange kindes of water-fowles.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 One of the Saylers espying a Bird fitly called a Booby, hee mounted to the top-mast and tooke her. The foolish quality of which Bird is to sit still, not valuing danger.

1687 R. Blome Present State Isles & Territories Amer. 252 Then there is the Booby-bird, the blew-headed Parrot,..the Carlew, the Wood-Pigeon, &c.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 31 Boobies..so called of Seamen because they do not stir from you, but suffer themselves to be catch'd by the hand.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Albitrosse... This is a thievish creature and principally feeds on the prey which another sea-bird, called the booby, provides for itself.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II lxxxii. 160 At length they caught two boobies, and a noddy.

1875 A. J. Cupples Young Bright-eye iii. 48 It proved to be..a booby-bird..about the size of a large duck, with no trifle of a beak on its head.

1904 C. A. Reed N. Amer. Bird Eggs 57 Blue-faced Booby. Sula cyanops... Like the rest of the Gannets, this one is stupid and will often remain on the nest until removed with the hand, merely hissing at the intruder.

1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 22 Dec. a9/1 He..brought back rare specimens of blue-eyed Galapagos doves, iguanas, and the seldom-seen blue-footed booby bird.

1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World iii. 91 On to the well-watered, tree-covered Cocos Island, inhabited by boobies and man-of-war birds.

2018 @Adagiosvoyge 6 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) We've had a hitch hiking bird on our bow rail all day. I think it's a brown booby.

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释义	> as lemmas booby bird 2. More fully booby bird. Any of various large tropical seabirds comprising (or formerly included in) the genus Sula (family Sulidae), which typically breed in colonies on islands and coastal regions, and have white, black, and brown plumage. Also with distinguishing word. Cf. Sula n.Abbott's booby, blue-footed booby, masked booby, red-footed booby: see the first element.Perhaps with reference to a reputation for stupidity; cf. e.g. quots. 1634, 1904 and see etymology. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Sulidae (gannets) > member of (miscellaneous) booby1625 malgas1731 takapu1842 blue-footed booby1888 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Sulidae (gannets) > sula bassana (gannet) ganneta1000 solana1525 solanc1540 booby1625 gentleman1676 Sula1678 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. iv. 416 Of Fowles are Pellicans, white, as bigge as Swannes, with a large and long bill; Hearnes, Curlews, Boobies, Oxe-eyes, with diuers strange kindes of water-fowles. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 One of the Saylers espying a Bird fitly called a Booby, hee mounted to the top-mast and tooke her. The foolish quality of which Bird is to sit still, not valuing danger. 1687 R. Blome Present State Isles & Territories Amer. 252 Then there is the Booby-bird, the blew-headed Parrot,..the Carlew, the Wood-Pigeon, &c. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 31 Boobies..so called of Seamen because they do not stir from you, but suffer themselves to be catch'd by the hand. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Albitrosse... This is a thievish creature and principally feeds on the prey which another sea-bird, called the booby, provides for itself. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II lxxxii. 160 At length they caught two boobies, and a noddy. 1875 A. J. Cupples Young Bright-eye iii. 48 It proved to be..a booby-bird..about the size of a large duck, with no trifle of a beak on its head. 1904 C. A. Reed N. Amer. Bird Eggs 57 Blue-faced Booby. Sula cyanops... Like the rest of the Gannets, this one is stupid and will often remain on the nest until removed with the hand, merely hissing at the intruder. 1940 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 22 Dec. a9/1 He..brought back rare specimens of blue-eyed Galapagos doves, iguanas, and the seldom-seen blue-footed booby bird. 1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World iii. 91 On to the well-watered, tree-covered Cocos Island, inhabited by boobies and man-of-war birds. 2018 @Adagiosvoyge 6 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) We've had a hitch hiking bird on our bow rail all day. I think it's a brown booby. extracted from boobyn.¹ < as lemmas
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