| 单词 | coddy-moddy gull |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoddy-moddy gull Also coddy-moddy gull. A (young) gull; esp. a (young) common gull, Larus canus, or black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > young coddy-moddy gull1673 scauriea1795 Iceland gull1822 powder puff1850 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 94 The Coddy moddy or lesser grey Gull. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 8 We sailed by an inchanted Island,..heard Cawdimawdies, Sea-gulls and Crowes, (Birds that alwayes frequent the shoar) but could see nothing by reason of the mist. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. ii. 350 (heading) The Winter-Mew, called in Cambridge-shire the Coddy-moddy. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VIII. 396 The coddy-moddies come up into this country in great numbers at the time this star-shot is generally found. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 314 Coddy moddy. A gull in its first year's plumage. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1964) 266 Where white Cawdymaws slow swiver and sail. 1867 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip Dec. 265/1 The Hooded Crow and the Coddy-moddy Gull stalk in stately silence over the gossamer-webbed fields. 1948 M. Fuller This Awakening iv. 50 Little wonder that the parent gulls became hardhearted and agreed among themselves that starvation is the best teacher for the coddy-moddy. < as lemmas |
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