| 单词 | bottle tom |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle tom bottle tom n. [ < bottle n.3 + Tom n.1, with allusion to the shape of the bird's nest] now rare = bottle tit n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Aegithalos (long-tailed titmouse) poke bag1663 pudding-poke1684 bottle tom1802 bottle tit1817 bumbarrel1817 feather-poke1831 mufflin1837 jack-in-a-bottle1838 pettichaps1851 poke pudding1851 Long Tom1853 muffler1868 hedge-jug1881 ragamuffin1885 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Titmouse-Long-Tailed Huckmuck. Bottle-tom. Longtail-mag. 1844 Zoologist 2 648 It was the long-tailed titmouse, or, as it is here called, ‘Bottle Tom’. 1905 Country-side 10 June 73/1 The bird is a species of tit, and is called by the lads of the neighbourhood a ‘bottle Tom’. 1944 My Garden Dec. 535 There is no other British bird quite like our bottle-tom, as it is often called, and both in form and colouring it is unmistakable. < as lemmas |
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