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单词 tom titmouse
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Tom Titmouse
Tom Titmouse n. now rare (a name for) the tomtit (tomtit n. 1a).Frequently as a proper name, personifying the bird; cf. jenny wren n. 1, robin redbreast n. I.
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1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. Kv Sometimes I wepe To see Tom Tyttimouse, so much set by.
1640 Cawwood the Rooke i. sig. A3 In a short time there were come unto the Court of Sylvia, Rubert the Robin, Mavis the Magpie, Phillip the Sparrow..with Philomel the Nightingall, Tom Titmouse, Parvis the Wren..and Maybird the Cuckoo.
c1776 in Roxburghe Ballads (1889) VI. 308 Says Tom Tit-Mouse then, ‘There be some men That will change nine times a day’.
1838 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 12 May 125/2 If..it [sc. a hedge] ever got the length of affording so much as shelter to a kitty-wren or a tom-titmouse.
1922 M. Webb Seven for Secret xvii. 160 Like tom-titmice to a bone they come.
1956 N. K. Duffy Amer. Childhood Jan. 62/1 Tom Titmouse sings and whistles Upon a tiny twig; The icy winds are blowing And ruffling up his wig.
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