| 单词 |
dunnock |
| 释义 |
dunnock|ˈdʌnək|
Also 5 donek, dunoke, 7 dunneck, 9 dinnick (sense 2).
[app. f. dun a. + -ock dim. suffix; from the dusky brown colour of the plumage. Cf. dunlin.]
1. The hedge-sparrow or hedge-warbler (Accentor modularis).
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 761/38 Hec lonefa, a donek. 1483Cath. Angl. 111/1 A Dunoke..curuca. 1611Cotgr., Verdon, a Dunneck, Dike-smowler, Hedge-sparrow. 1824Forster Perenn. Calend. in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 119 The dingie dunnock, and the swart colemouse. 1847E. Brontë Wuthering Heights iv. (D.), Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock.
2. (form dinnick) Applied in Devonshire to the Wryneck (Jynx torquilla).
1863Q. Rev. July 245 Either the cuckoo or the cuckoo's servant, the dinnick, as it is called in Devonshire. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 104 Wryneck..Dinnick (Devon). From its brown plumage. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容：
相关热词搜索：dunnock英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 猛炸药 释义 【化】 high explosive 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖......