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单词 spowe
释义

spowen.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Probably the reflex of a borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic, Icelandic spói , Norwegian (Bokmål) spove , (Nynorsk) spue , †spoe , Danish spove (17th cent.), Swedish spov , †spove (1557 as †spoo ), all in senses ‘whimbrel’ as well as ‘curlew’), probably < the same Germanic base as speed n., the bird being so named because it moves nimbly.
English regional (Norfolk). Obsolete.
A whimbrel or a curlew (genus Numenius).
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1519 in Archaeologia (1834) 25 422 Item..iij Plovers, iij Spowes, & iij Stynts.
1526 T. L'Estrange Househ. Exp. (Add. MS. 27448) f. 38 b Item, a spowe, a radshanke, and a snype, ij d.
1526 T. L'Estrange Househ. Exp. (Add. MS. 27448) f. 38 b viij redshancks viij d, vii spowes x d.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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