| 单词 | black-bob |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-bob b. A beetle: chiefly in combination, as black-bob, blind-bob (also figurative). Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) beetlea800 buddea1200 scarbot14.. escharbon1480 clock1568 black-bob1742 hardback1750 coleopter1860 Coleoptera1875 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) iv. i. 259 A further Account of the Wevil..At Winchester, they call this Insect, Pope, Black-bob, or Creeper. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 19 Bobs..are worms as big as two maggots, have red heads. 1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 662 All sorts of worms are better for being kept, except earth-bobs. a1793 G. White Observ. Insects in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 220 Blatta orientalis..Her house was over-run with a kind of black beetle, or as she expressed herself, with a kind of black-bob [cockroach]. < as lemmas |
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