| 释义 |
▪ I. doe|dəʊ|
Forms: 1 dá, 2–6 do, (3 pl. don), 4–7 doo, 5–6 Sc. and north. da, (6 dooe, 7 doa), 6– doe (Sc. dae).
[OE. dá is thought by some to be a contracted form, cognate with OHG. tâmo, dâmo wk. masc., MHG. tâme, G. dam- (in damhirsch, damwild), a. L. dāma, damma f., sometimes m., fallow deer, buck, doe; but there are serious difficulties. See Pogatscher Gr. Lat. u. Rom. Lehnworte im Altengl. §302.]
1. a. The female of the fallow deer; applied also to the female of allied animals, as the reindeer.
c1000ælfric Gr. (Z.) 309 Damma, uel dammula, dâ. a1200Voc. Wr.-Wülc. 543 Do. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 393/12 To cachche hert and bocke and don. 1388Wyclif Prov. vi. 5 Be thou rauyschid as a doo fro the hond. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiii. 105 Hertez and hyndez, bukk and da. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 324 Venyson freshe of bucke and do. 1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 21 The hart, the hynd, the dae, the rae. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. i. 128 For O loues Bow, Shootes Bucke and Doe. 1609Bible (Douay) Deut. xii. 15 Lawful to be offered, as the doa and the hart. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 127 He tooke it for a Doo, where it was more likely some..Chamoy. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 130 These horns are proper only to the Buck [Reindeer], the Doe having much less and fewer branches. 1807–15Wordsw. White Doe Rylst. vii. 96 A doe most beautiful, clear-white. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. iii, Close in her covert cowered the doe.
†b. Applied generically to both sexes, like L. dāma. Hence doe-buck, a male deer. Obs.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 759 Hic damus, a dobuk. Hic vel hec dama, a doo.
2. The female of the hare or rabbit; sometimes dial. of other animals, e.g. the rat.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 87 One that kept tame Conies..had Does which littered three at a time, and within fourteen daies after, they littered four more. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. i. 300 They are distinguished by the Names of Bucks and Does; and the Males are usually call'd Jack Hares. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 99 A doe [rabbit] when suckling, will drink milk.
3. attrib., as doe-buck, doe-cony, doe-deer, doe-eye (so doe-eyed adj.), doe-leather, doe-venison; made of doeskin, as doe trousers.
c1455Golagros & Gaw. 226 Thay drive on the da deir be dalis and doun. c1475[see 1 b]. 1611Cotgr., Rabolliere, a Rabbets neast; the hole wherein a Doe Conie keepeth her young ones. 1747Phil. Trans. XLIV. 572 The Skin drew or stretch'd like a Piece of Doe-Leather. 1819Pantologia s.v., Doe venison is not equal in estimation with buck venison. 1844Advt. in Illust. Lond. News 22 June 407/3 Plain doe trousers, 17/6. 1933Dylan Thomas Let. (1966) 75 A broad creature, not..to be confused with the slim, doe-eyed apparition of your green book. 1959‘J. R. Macdonald’ Galton Case (1960) ii. 17 The doe-eyed girl from the badminton court. 1959Manch. Guardian 2 July 5/6 A certain tendency to doe-eyed sentimentality. 1963N. Freeling Because of Cats iv. 64 Big wide doe-eyes nodded, yes.
▪ II. doe
obs. form of do, dough. |