† hum-birdn.

Etymology: < hum n.¹ or hum v.¹ + bird n.

Obsolete.

= hummingbird n.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird)

hummer1606

hum-bird1634

hummingbird1637

trochilus1752

bee-bird1771

honeysucker1773

fly-bird1782

coquette1854

satellite1857

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 28 As she flies, she makes a little humming noise like a Humble-bee: wherefore shee is called the Humbird.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. viii. 315 The Humbird, not much exceeding a Beetle.

1698 B. Bullivant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 168 The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand.

1819 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay iv Some from the hum-bird's downy nest.

1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing i. 38 They both came within a humbird's eye of it.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 377 The tiny Mango Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris)..is known familiarly..as Humbird or Hummer simply.

1891 R. T. Cooke Huckleberries (1896) 167 I never see a humbird fuller o' buzz than little Prudy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	hum-bird
释义	† hum-birdn. Etymology: < hum n.¹ or hum v.¹ + bird n. Obsolete. = hummingbird n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) hummer1606 hum-bird1634 hummingbird1637 trochilus1752 bee-bird1771 honeysucker1773 fly-bird1782 coquette1854 satellite1857 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 28 As she flies, she makes a little humming noise like a Humble-bee: wherefore shee is called the Humbird. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. viii. 315 The Humbird, not much exceeding a Beetle. View more context for this quotation 1698 B. Bullivant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 168 The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand. 1819 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay iv Some from the hum-bird's downy nest. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing i. 38 They both came within a humbird's eye of it. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 377 The tiny Mango Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris)..is known familiarly..as Humbird or Hummer simply. 1891 R. T. Cooke Huckleberries (1896) 167 I never see a humbird fuller o' buzz than little Prudy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1634
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