hoodien.
/ˈhʊdi/, U.S. /ˈhʊdi/ The Hooded or Royston Crow, Corvus Cornix.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow)
hooded crow?a1513
Royston crow1611
pied crow1648
scarecrow1676
grey crow1715
hoodie1789
Harry Denchman18..
hoodie-crow1816
bunting crow1831
Norway crow1848
saddleback1864
greyback1884
Kentish crow1893
sparrow-duck1895
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 4 (Jam.) Upon an ash above the lin A hoody has her nest.
1797 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIX. 498 There are also carrion crows (hoddies, as they are called here).
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 268 But they are true republicans, these hoodies, who do every one just what he likes.
Derivatives
hoodie-crow n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow)
hooded crow?a1513
Royston crow1611
pied crow1648
scarecrow1676
grey crow1715
hoodie1789
Harry Denchman18..
hoodie-crow1816
bunting crow1831
Norway crow1848
saddleback1864
greyback1884
Kentish crow1893
sparrow-duck1895
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. viii. 172 They are sitting..like hoodie-craws in a mist.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 266 On the rabbit burrows on the shore there gathered hundreds and hundreds of hoodiecrows, such as you see in Cambridgeshire.
Draft additions December 2005
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
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1990 R. Doyle Snapper (1993) 130 They heard cloth ripping.—You're after ripping me hoodie.
1994 i-D Oct. 86/2 Those with bumpy areas..can look forward to lurking fascinatingly beneath one of his striped velour hoodies.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 July 22 Members of this demographic wear the dodginess of their surroundings as a badge of honour on their Marks & Spencer hoodies.
Draft additions August 2007
colloquial (British and Irish English). A young person who wears a hoodie and is typically regarded as socially disruptive. Hence also: a hooligan, a thug.
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1991 MT Mag. (Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Dublin) Spring 14 (captions to cartoons of two youths) ‘The Hoodie’. ‘The Rocker’.
1994 Independent 12 Dec. 18 Street gangs also favour goose-down parkas with large hoods. Police have taken to calling the gangs ‘hoodies’.
1999 B. Zephaniah Face (2003) 176 If you need a hand I'm here for you. You can never tell when those homies or hoodies are going to get out of hand.
2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 21 July 50 A hoodie pushed me from behind for no apparent reason and then punched me in the face.
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