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单词 johnny-cock-horse
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Johnny-cock-horse
Johnny-cock-horse n. U.S. regional (now rare) a mantis (family Mantidae).
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 356 Rear Horse, the vulgar name, at the South, for the orthopterous insect called the Mantis, Camel Cricket, or Johnny Cock-horse.
1888 D. A. Payne Recoll. Seventy Years xxxi. 307 A ‘hobby-horse’, as some people call the insect, or a ‘Johnny-cock-horse’, as others call it, was in a cluster of dahlias.
1953 R. Molloy Multitude of Sins vii. 59 ‘Don't stand there looking like a Johnny-cock-horse..’. ‘But—’ Margaret protested. It was barely possible that she resented being compared to a praying mantis.
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