| 单词 | summer colts |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer colts summer colts n. originally and chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern) (now rare) (a) a shimmering haze seen just above the ground on a hot day; occasionally in singular; †(b) a dancing or shimmering swarm of midges (obsolete rare). [Perhaps arising from a perceived resemblance to a prancing colt: see Sc. National Dict. at Simmer n.1 combs. 3.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > shimmering or undulating effect of hot air summer colts1686 mirage1812 haze1847 Laurence1907 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 993 An undulating motion [which] our Countrie People call by the name of Summer Colts in the Air. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 21 The summer cauts [printed cauls] were dancing here an' there. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 349 When the air is seen in a calm hot day to undulate,..the phænomenon is expressed by saying, ‘the summer colt rides’. 1819 Scots Mag. June 526 Licht was his heart as the summer cowt I' the sunshine after rain. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Summer-couts,..The gnats which dance in clusters on a summer evening. 1935 Queen's Q. Spring 31 A still, heat-hushed mile of it [sc. wheat], undulating into a shimmer of summer-colts and crushed horizon blue. 1943 Scots Mag. July 321 The blistering ‘simmer coutts’, as we used to call the earth-shimmer. < as lemmas |
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