单词 | chicken coop |
释义 | chicken coopn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > chicken-coop mewc1387 hen coop1423 coop1530 hen cub1583 chicken coop1687 chicken house1750 chicken cavie?a1786 hen-rip1788 par1866 hover1907 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). < n.1687 |
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