单词 | thraw-mouse |
释义 | thraw-mousen. Scottish (chiefly north-eastern). A shrew. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Soricidae > genus Sorex (shrew) shrewc725 mygalea1382 ranny1559 shrewmouse1572 hardishrew1601 muset1601 earth-shrew1607 sorex1607 spitemouse1668 hog mouse1743 wight1795 thraw-mouse1825 saddleback1948 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Thraw-mouse, the shrew-mouse, Sorex araneus, Linn., Mearns. 1845 G. Murray Islaford 94 The thraw-mouse and the blinterin' mole May howk the lea. 1881 W. Gregor Notes Folk-lore N.-E. Scotl. 127 The field mouse, called ‘the thraw mouse’, running over the foot of a person, was supposed to produce paralysis in the foot. 1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 95 Shrew mouse, [Moray, Banff, Aberdeen, Kincardine, Clackmannan, Lanark] thraw mouse. 2009 R. Adam Rhymes of Weary Roadman 12 A thraw moose reeshlt throwe the leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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