| 单词 | gowk's-storm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgowk's-storm gowk's-storm n. †(a) a storm of short duration; (b) a spring gale which occurs at the time of the cuckoo's arrival. ΚΠ 1594 Huntly Let. to Earl Angus in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 225 [Huntly spoke of the king's rumoured campaign as likely to turn out a] ‘gowk's storm’. a1691 G. Mackenzie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1821) 70 That being done he hop'd that this was but a gowk storm. 1849 W. Thompson Nat. Hist. Birds Irel. I. 357 The peasantry look forward with the greatest interest every spring for what they call the ‘Gowk (cuckoo) Storm’, that takes place about the end of April or the beginning of May, when the note of this bird is heard. 1899 H. C. Hart in Trans. Philol. Soc. 11 The portion shed from the plant and driven ashore by May storms, usually by that storm known as the ‘cuckoo storm’ or ‘gowk storm’. < as lemmas |
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