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单词 tod's bird
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tod's bird
tod's bird n. Obsolete an unruly or destructive person or thing; cf. tod's bairn n.With allusion to the proverb it's ill taming tods' birds: see quot. 1717 at Phrases 1.
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1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. sig. Y8 [The affections] wald ever be handled as Tods birds; for they ar aye the war of ouer great libertie.
1639 R. Baillie Let. 28 Sept. (1841) I. 196 To hold the islanders and these tod's-birds of Lochaber, in some awe.
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