单词 | tickle-ace |
释义 | tickle-acen. Newfoundland and Labrador. The kittiwake. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus tridactylus (kittiwake) kittiwake1661 tarrock1674 petrel1770 haglet1803 kitty1806 tickle-ace1819 wake-up kittle1832 mackerel bird1879 1819 in H. J. Paddock Languages in Newfoundland & Labrador (1977) 16 Titlass-Gotheyet. 1889 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 565/2 They were chiefly Murres, Turres, Pigeons and Tick~laces. 1909 P. W. Browne Where Fishers Go 207 The Kittiwake..is known to fishermen as ‘Tickelelse (‘Ticklers’). 1932 J. Barbour Forty-eight Days Adrift 53 The only thing alive, to be seen, was a tickalass, and we tried with poles to kill it, to eat. 1951 Peters & Burleigh Birds of Newfoundland 235 Atlantic Black~legged Kittiwake... Local names: Tickle-lace, Tickle~ace, Tickle-ass. 1966 A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 36 Jim Parsons was out shooting tickle-aces yesterday. 1974 F. Mowat Boat who wouldn't Float xviii. 219 She [sc. a boat] lay lightly on the harbour looking as pretty as a tickle-ass. 1975 T. Russell Chron. Uncle Mose 23 There'd been a few ticklaces around that morning.., and being as how I liked ticklace soup as well as the next man, I wished I'd had my breech-loader and a few cartridges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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