| 单词 | gilt cup |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgilt cup gilt cup n. (also gilcup) English regional (southern) any of several plants of the family Ranunculaceae having yellow, cup-shaped flowers; esp. a buttercup, genus Ranunculus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup butterflower1527 kingcup1538 crow-flower1597 king-cob1597 gilt cup1610 pissabed1640 Goldilocks1650 craysec1652 buttercup1688 yellow cup1824 bulbous buttercup1844 goldballs1854 Meg-many-feet1878 clovewort1886 sitfast1901 1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes Q 2 Medowground..that takes more pride in the company of the Cowslipp, then the gilt-cupp which carrieth the garland from the rest. 1797 C. Hutton Diary Compan. 1798 26 Th' enamel'd mead, where beauteous gilt-cups spring. 1864 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 476 Where the barn-vloor wer a-sheenen do vall The cwold zummer dew; an' gilcups be bright. 1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. vii. 39 A mass of bright glossy heart-shaped leaves, interspersed with the brilliant yellow blossoms of the smaller celandine—‘gilt-cups’ the village children call them. 1902 W. Sherren Wessex of Romance i. 38 I wer playen with a hook in the hedges,..loppen off the heads of the gil-cups. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 49/1 Gilt cup, lesser celandine or pilewort. Ranunculus Ficaria. 1970 Country Life 15 Oct. 1023/1 Marsh marigolds are still often ‘golds’, ‘goldicups’, ‘gilcups’. 2000 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 18 Jan. (Business section) 25 Westcountry dialect often cuts corners... Thus Gilcup for buttercup is a short form of gilded cup. < as lemmas |
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