| 单词 | cock's egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock's egg cock's egg n. an abnormally small and yolkless egg of the domestic chicken.Formerly thought to be produced by the cock, and said to be the source of the mythical cockatrice. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg > yolkless egg cock's egg?1527 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > mythical types of serpent (miscellaneous) > basilisk or cockatrice > egg of cockatrice cock's egg?1527 ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes sig. l.iiv/1 Some say yt he [sc. basiliscus] commeth of a cockes egge. 1626 T. Scott Sir Walter Rawleighs Ghost in Harl. Misc. (1809) III. 531 Every minute he produced new and unnatural Cocks~eggs..hatched them from the devilishness of his policy, and brought forth serpents to poison all Europe. 1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 130 Cocks eggs, very small eggs laid by hens which they will not let them sit upon least they should produce a Cockatrice. 1883 C. S. Burne Shropshire Folk-lore 229 The small yolkless eggs which hens sometimes lay are called [in Shropshire] cock's eggs. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 578 Every now and then the poultry keeper finds a dwarf egg from one-tenth to one-half the usual size... According to one superstition, they are produced by old cocks, and they are called ‘cocks-eggs’ to this day. 2004 Daily Mail (Nexis) 8 Dec. 52 Cockney was originally cokeney, the Middle English term for ‘cock's egg’ the small, misshapen eggs occasionally laid by chickens. < as lemmas |
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