| 单词 | water-ask |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-ask water-ask n. [ < water n. + ask n.2; compare earlier water-eft n. and water newt n.] Irish English, Scottish, and English regional (northern) (now rare) a newt, esp. the smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris.. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Urodela or Caudata > [noun] > family Salamandridae (newts) > newt askeOE newta1425 askerc1450 swift1530 eft1584 water-ask1772 1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 278 Lacertus. The Eft, or Newt or Ask. Of this we have two Sorts, 1... The Land Ask, sometimes here called Man-keeper... 2... The Water Ask or Arglogher. 1820 Marmaiden of Clyde xviii, in Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. 6 423 The water-asks, sae cauld and saft, Crawl'd ower the glittie flure. 1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls v. 114 She's not the fool, anyway, to be dhrinkin' out o' wather-pools thick wid them black wather-asks, that 'ud lep down your throath as soon as look at you. 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 434 Q[uestion]. What do you call that small four-legged, long-tailed creature, blackish on top; it darts about in ponds?.. [Cumberland, Westmorland] Water-ask. < as lemmas |
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