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单词 whitret
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whitretwhitterickn.

Brit. /ˈwɪtrᵻt/, /ˈhwɪtrᵻt/, /ˈwɪt(ə)rɪk/, /ˈhwɪt(ə)rɪk/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪtrət/, /ˈ(h)wɪdərɪk/, Scottish English /ˈhwɪtrᵻt/, /ˈhwɪtərɪk/
Forms: α. Middle English whytrate, ( -ratche), whitratt, whytrat, Scottish quhitrat, Middle English, 1800s whitrat, 1500s Scottish quhittrat, quhitred, fittret, quhittret, 1600s–1700s whitred, 1600s, 1800s whittret, 1700s–1800s whiteret, 1800s whitteret, whittrit, ( whutthroat), 1700s– whitret. β. 1700s–1800s whitrick, 1800s whitrack, ( w(h)utterick, -ock, whuttorock), whittrick, whitterick. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.)
Etymology: The earliest known forms suggest a compound of white adj. and n. and rat n.1; the types whitret, whitred, whitrick exemplify Scots tendency to modify the sounds of final syllables.
Scottish and dialect.
A weasel; also, a stoat.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel)
weaselc725
vaira1387
foin1423
whitretc1440
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mustelle1481
fitchet1693
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) > mustela erminea (stoat)
erminea1200
vaira1387
whitretc1440
stoatc1460
lobstera1496
ermelin1555
lasset-mouse1591
weasel1607
stump1854
stoat-weasel1882
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 525/2 Whytrate (K. whitratt, P. whytratche).
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hunting f iiij b The Graye, the Fox, the Squyrell, the whitrat, the Sot, and the Pulcatte.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 911 in Poems (1981) 38 The quhyrnand quhitret with the quhasill went.
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Bvv Martrikis, beuers, quhitredis and toddis.
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. N2 Out come the Quhitteret furthwith.
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer i, in Poems sig. O The Fumart and the Fittret straue, The deip and howest hole to haue.
1639 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom Sutherland (1813) 3 Brocks, skuyrrells, whittrets, weasels, otters.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) p. xi As harmless as a whitred without teeth.
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 11 Mustela vulgaris ea est, quæ Whitred nostratibus dicitur.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 188 Ony Whitret's direfu' jaws.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 29 We maun off like whittrets before the whole clanjamfray be doun upon us.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 275 The whut-throat or weazle, and the hoodie, have often bloody wars with other.
1880 Fraser's Mag. May 646 When a whitret or a fox came prowling past.
β. c1800 R. Jamieson's Pop. Ball. (1806) I. 294 Her minnie had hain'd the warl, And the whitrack-skin had routh.1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry 455 The weazle (provincially whitrick).1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 145 He yokes him fairly wi' his teeth As Brush wad dune a whitterick.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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