单词 | storkish |
释义 | storkishadj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stork; like that of a stork. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [adjective] > of or relating to stork(s) storkish1592 Pelargic1824 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 91v Antigone the daughter of Laomedon solaciously delighting hir selfe in hir storkish plumes. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 336 Like storkish kings they came vpon vs poore frogs with minaces of death to him that first should leape out of the puddle from vnder their tyranny. 1842 W. M. Thackeray Sultan Stork i They..greeted it in the true storkish language. ‘Good morning,’..said the stork. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1592 |
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