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单词 gormaw
释义

gormawn.

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s gorma(h, 1800s gormer, gormow. See also goul mau, variant of gull-maw n. at gull n.1 Compounds 2.
Etymology: ? < gore n.1 + maw n.1; compare gorbelly n.
Scottish and northern dialect.
a. The cormorant.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant)
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gormaw?a1513
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Isle of Wight parson1806
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The golk, the gormaw and the gled Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled.
1722 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 15 Greidy Gleds and slie Gormahs.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gorma, a cormorant. North.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gormer, the cormorant.
b. (See quot.)
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1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Gormaw,..a glutton, Lanarks.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Gormow, a clownish fellow; sometimes applied to a great eater.
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