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单词 tickle-ace
释义

tickle-acen.

Brit. /ˈtɪkəleɪs/, U.S. /ˈtɪkəlˌeɪs/, Canadian English /ˈtɪkəlˌeis/
Forms: Also ticklace, tickle-ass, tickle-else, etc.
Etymology: perhaps imitative of the bird's cry.
Newfoundland and Labrador.
The kittiwake.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus tridactylus (kittiwake)
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tarrock1674
petrel1770
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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.
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