单词 | fog-eater |
释义 | > as lemmasfog-eater fog-eater n. originally Nautical slang (chiefly North American) a white or faintly-coloured arch similar to a rainbow, produced when sunlight shines through fog; cf. fogbow n.With allusion to the belief that the appearance of a fog-eater signalled the lifting of the fog. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > rainbow > [noun] > fog- or mist-bow fogbow1820 fog-circle1820 fog-eater1828 mist-bow1874 1828 Worcester (Mass.) Talisman 31 May He looked up and said, sternly, there is a fog eater—at this moment the sun seemed to flash upon our deck, and the fog rose from the sea. 1963 North (Ottawa) Mar. 11/1 With the calms come fog bows—the ‘fog-eater’. 2001 D. K. Lynch & W. Livingston Color & Light in Nature (ed. 2) 263/2 Fog-eater, name for fogbow by Nova Scotia fishermen. < as lemmas |
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