| 释义 |
galeeny|gəˈliːnɪ|
Also 8 galina, 9 galan(e)y, -ainy, -eny, -iny, gallini.
[a. Sp. gallina morisca (Minsheu 1623) lit. ‘Moorish hen’, or its equivalent in Pg. or It.]
A guinea fowl.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xxv. 234 They had also here the tame galinas, or Guinea-hens, called tokay. 1801Jane Austen Lett. (1884) I. 263 Bantam cocks and Galinies. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Galaney, a fowl. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. vi, ‘Men is desaving, and so is galanies’. 1887Mrs. M. L. Woods Village Trag. ii, ‘Girls..as don't know a hen's egg from a galeeny's’. 1887S. Chesh. Gloss., Galainy, a guinea fowl. 1888Berksh. Gloss., Gallini, the Guinea fowl. |