单词 | cock-a-bondy |
释义 | cock-a-bondyn. 1. Angling. Also with capital initial(s). An artificial fly intended to imitate or thought to resemble the garden chafer (see sense 2), typically dressed with a reddish hackle feather with a black base; (also) this type of feather. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1835 Let. 30 Sept. in Bell's Life in London 4 Oct. I fish with none but the following..:—1st. the march brown; 2d. the spinner;..and, lastly (at almost all seasons), with the cock of bondy. 1848 E. Fitzgibbon Handbk. Angling (ed. 2) v. 105 A Welshman's way.—Body, mulberry coloured mohair; wings and legs, furnace (Coch-y-bonddu) hackle struck from tail to head. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 91 Throwing some cock-a-bondies across the table. 1889 F. M. Walbran Brit. Angler vii. 74 The Golden Grub.—Tag, gold thread and red wool body, gold tinselled chenille with black thread; hackle, large coch-y-bondhu from second turn of chenille. 1978 P. Jorgensen Salmon Flies 35 The furnace is a brown shade with a black center stripe, and the cock-y-bondhu is very similar—the only difference being a black list at the tip of the individual fibers. 2009 B. Hansford-Steele Fishing Flies for Afr. viii. 287/1 The Coch-y-Bonddu..remains an immensely popular fly throughout all the fly-fishing areas of Africa. ΚΠ 1871 J. G. Wood et al. World of Little Wonders 114 The well-known insect, the Phyllopertha horticola,..is known to anglers by its old Welsh name of Coch-y-bondhu, often corrupted by them into the rather ludicrous word Cockerbundy. 1875 J. G. Wood Common Brit. Beetles vi. 86 This is the June-bug, Bracken-clock (Phyllopertha horticola), or Coch-y-bondhu of anglers. 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 800/1 The..garden-chafer or ‘cocker-bundy’ (Phyllopertha horticola),..has a dark green prothorax and brown elytra. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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