| 单词 | common partridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon partridge a. Originally (now more fully common partridge, (North American) Hungarian partridge): a ground-dwelling Eurasian game bird, Perdix perdix (family Phasianidae) with an orange head, short tail, and rasping call (also introduced in North America). Later also (usually with distinguishing word): any of certain other short-tailed Old World game birds of the same subfamily ( Phasianinae), being generally smaller than pheasants but larger than quails.Guernsey, hill-, red-legged, snow partridge, etc.: see the first element.See also grey partridge n. (a) at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > general or unspecified member pheasantc1299 partridgec1300 quail1625 Lady Amherst's pheasant1844 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) partridgec1300 rowen1575 rowen partridge1603 perdix1609 rowen-tail1686 peckle-head1688 bird1877 c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) 316 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 411 (MED) A ȝong partrich he bar on his hond, and þare-with he gan pleye. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxvi. 20 A partrich [v.r. partritch] is pursued in hillis. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 1641 (MED) Lyche to lyche euere doth applie, As scheep to scheep & man to man, Pertryche to pertryche & swan to swan. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. biijv Let yowre spanyellis fynde a Couy of partrichys and when thay be put vpp..ye most haue markeris to marke som of thaym, and then cowple vp yowre houndys. a1500 in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 164 (MED) I hyrde the fowles syng..The parterygge, the fesant, and the sterlyng. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 118 Gloss. A Couey of Partridge. a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. iv Hee hides and buries it vp, as Partridges doe their egges, vnder the earth. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 172 The same preservation, or rather incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of Turkeys, Capons, Hares, Partridge, Venison, suspended freely in the ayre. View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 186 David was hunted up and down like a Partridge. 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 273 Buffon contends that the περδιξ of Aristotle does not mean the common partridge, but the bartavel. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 206 The partridge is now too common in France to be considered as a delicacy. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxv. 302 Plump as any partridge was each Miss Mould. 1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 483/2 The common European gray-partridge differs somewhat in form from our bird, which in this particular resembles more closely the red-legged partridge of Europe. 1903 C. A. Sykes Service & Sport Trop. Nile 9 Bustards.., guinea-fowl and partridge, abound. 1935–9 R. Haig-Brown Black Fisherman in V. Haig-Brown Woods & River Tales (1980) xvii. 169 In his four seasons Souse proved himself on quail, snipe, pheasants and Hungarian partridges, as well as on grouse. 1974 E. Pollard et al. Hedges (1977) x. 127 The only bird which has failed to increase substantially in numbers since then..has been the common partridge, essentially a species of open farmland. 2002 Guardian 28 Sept. i. 22/2 A covey of partridge—eight Frenchies (or red-legged), three native greys—scuttled across the next field. < as lemmas |
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