单词 | whitret |
释义 | whitretwhitterickn. Scottish and dialect. A weasel; also, a stoat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) weaselc725 vaira1387 foin1423 whitretc1440 mouse-hunt1481 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 α. 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.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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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