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单词 chicken coop
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chicken coopn.

Brit. /ˈtʃɪk(ᵻ)n kuːp/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪkən ˌkup/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chicken n., coop n.1
Etymology: < chicken n. + coop n.1
A coop or pen in which chickens are kept; a henhouse. Also in early use: a small cage or basket for carrying or keeping chickens. In quot. 1687 humorously denoting a cage in which the protagonist finds himself.
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1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote i. iv. xxi. 272 You were as you believe, inchanted in that Chicken-Coop.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 173 St. Mark's Place is all covered over in a morning with chicken-coops.
1789 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ix. 70 The duchess carrying off the chicken-coop under her arm.
1910 Wilson Bull. 22 185 The cock's shrill clarion re-echoed from every chicken-coop.
2015 Good Housek. (Nexis) Jan. 29 Every day the girls collected eggs from the chicken coops for breakfast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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