“bitter、bump”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bitter-bump

释义

butter-bump, bitter-bump
[f. butter, bitter, earlier forms of bittern + bump v.²]
Local name of the Bittern; Phillips 1678 makes it a different bird, but prob. in error.
1671in Skinner.1678Phillips (App.), Butterbump, a sort of Bird which some call Onocrotalus..Others think this bird rather than the Bittern (which they call Ardea Stellaris) to be that which is called in Latin Buteo.1678H. More Glanvill's Sadducismus Postsc. (1681) 30 And does she not..put her Neb also into it sometimes, as into a Reed..and cry like a Butterbump?1864Tennyson North. Farmer (Old Style) viii, Moäst loike a butter-bump, fur I 'eerd 'um aboot an' aboot.1871E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 111 We got ten couple..besides two butter-bumps and a heronsew.

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