| 单词 |
jack-bird |
| 释义 |
ˈjack-bird [Echoic: influenced by Jack n.1] 1. A local name for the fieldfare.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 6 Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)..Jack bird. From its cry. Cf. Chack chack (Luxemburg), Claque (Normandy). 2. ‘A bird of the South Island of New Zealand, Creadion cinereus’ (Morris Austral Eng.).
1873W. L. Buller Birds N. Zealand (1888) I. 23 (Morris) I have..adopted the name of Jack-bird, by which it is known among the settlers in the South Island. Why it should be so called I cannot say, unless this is an adaptation of the native name Tieke..the equivalent, in the Maori vernacular, of our Jack. |

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