waterbuckn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtəbʌk/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərˌbək/,

/ˈwɑdərˌbək/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, waterbucks.

Forms: see water n. and buck n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., buck n.¹

Etymology: < water n. + buck n.¹ In sense 2 after South African Dutch waterbok waterbok n.With sense 1 compare Old High German ahageiz , lit. ‘water goat’, and similarly post-classical Latin capra aquatica , capra aquosa (in glosses to Aldhelm and Tatwine), all also rendering classical Latin tippula Tipula n.; compare also post-classical Latin capra aquae (1305).

†1. An aquatic insect (possibly a water boatman or a pond skater). Obsolete. rare.Only in Old English.In quot. OE an otherwise unattested synonym wætergāt (cf. goat n.) is implied.

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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 61 Tippula, wæterbuca uel gat.

2. A large African antelope, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, having a shaggy coat and (in the male) long spiral horns, and living near water (to which it retreats when threatened); = waterbok n.The waterbuck is very variable in colour and distinguishing words have been used to designate some of the many subspecies (cf. sing-sing n.²).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Reduncinae > genus Kobus > kobus ellipsiprymnus (water-buck)

waterbok1835

waterbuck1838

water antelope1844

sing-sing1854

Uganda kob1896

Nile lechwe1937

1838 W. C. Harris Narr. Exped. S. Afr. xix. 175 I am the only European that ever shot a Water Buck.

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 87 I had two good chances at buffaloes,..one at a waterbuck ram.

1876 T. E. Buckley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 284 Cobus ellipsiprymnus. (The Waterbuck.) A common species, extending from the Zulu country through the east of Equatorial Africa into Abyssinia... It seems never to be found far from water, through which it does not hesitate to go when alarmed.

1910 T. Roosevelt Afr. Game Trails x. 227 I spent a couple of days trying for sing-sing waterbuck on the edge of the papyrus.

1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo iv. 40 The kob..is a little like a larger version of the impala... In fact its nearest relative is the large, shaggy, big-horned waterbuck.

2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 55/2 Defassa waterbuck stare on in placid bemusement from the bank.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	waterbuck
释义	waterbuckn. Brit. /ˈwɔːtəbʌk/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌbək/, /ˈwɑdərˌbək/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, waterbucks. Forms: see water n. and buck n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., buck n.¹ Etymology: < water n. + buck n.¹ In sense 2 after South African Dutch waterbok waterbok n.With sense 1 compare Old High German ahageiz , lit. ‘water goat’, and similarly post-classical Latin capra aquatica , capra aquosa (in glosses to Aldhelm and Tatwine), all also rendering classical Latin tippula Tipula n.; compare also post-classical Latin capra aquae (1305). †1. An aquatic insect (possibly a water boatman or a pond skater). Obsolete. rare.Only in Old English.In quot. OE an otherwise unattested synonym wætergāt (cf. goat n.) is implied. ΚΠ OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 61 Tippula, wæterbuca uel gat. 2. A large African antelope, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, having a shaggy coat and (in the male) long spiral horns, and living near water (to which it retreats when threatened); = waterbok n.The waterbuck is very variable in colour and distinguishing words have been used to designate some of the many subspecies (cf. sing-sing n.²). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Reduncinae > genus Kobus > kobus ellipsiprymnus (water-buck) waterbok1835 waterbuck1838 water antelope1844 sing-sing1854 Uganda kob1896 Nile lechwe1937 1838 W. C. Harris Narr. Exped. S. Afr. xix. 175 I am the only European that ever shot a Water Buck. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 87 I had two good chances at buffaloes,..one at a waterbuck ram. 1876 T. E. Buckley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 284 Cobus ellipsiprymnus. (The Waterbuck.) A common species, extending from the Zulu country through the east of Equatorial Africa into Abyssinia... It seems never to be found far from water, through which it does not hesitate to go when alarmed. 1910 T. Roosevelt Afr. Game Trails x. 227 I spent a couple of days trying for sing-sing waterbuck on the edge of the papyrus. 1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo iv. 40 The kob..is a little like a larger version of the impala... In fact its nearest relative is the large, shaggy, big-horned waterbuck. 2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 55/2 Defassa waterbuck stare on in placid bemusement from the bank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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